Re: Breakin Period and synthetics

From: Steve Owens (sowens01@rochester.rr.com)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2001 - 20:00:44 EST


Depends on who you talk to. I've always heard (and followed) the rule
of not putting in synthetics until the engine's broken in. I'll
probably switch to synthetics @ 9000 (or I run out of free oil changes
from my dealer. :-)

on 3/29/01 2:33 PM, Stephen Reill at sreill@OPTONLINE.NET wrote:

> A good question was brought up on the message boards and the replies have
> gotten me a little worried.
>
> I have recently changed over to Mobil 1 synthtic iol..(with Mobil 1 filter)
> My truck has 800 miles on it. I am hearing that I sould have waited for
> the truck to break in more. Should I drain and change back to regular oil
> for a while or just leave it in?
>



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