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Re: Conventional oil



At 11:58 AM 5/4/99 -0600, Hoppler, Harl wrote:
>There's been mention of going to a conventional oil for the 500 mile oil
change
>then running a thou or so before going to full synthetic. What weight oil
is used
>in this case? I haven't ever seen 15W40 in a conventional MC oil. 

My dealer receipt from the 500 miler says they put 10W40 Spectro in it.
We will change to synth at 1500.  500 is an awful short breakin, and 
5500 more to the second change is nuts.  Some marketing guy wanted to
brag about low service requirements IMO.


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