I need to see some good action movies. Been too busy
to watch any movies or mess around with the trucks,
except for doing the sensor/solenoid and fluid changes
in WorkDak Friday.
Steve P.
--- "Bernd D. Ratsch" <bernd@dodgetrucks.org> wrote:
>
> "You can't handle the truth" ;) LOL
>
> Just watched "War" with Jet Li and that dude from
> crank....<yawn>....good
> action but boring and too many subtitles.
>
> - Bernd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Preston [mailto:steveophonic@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 9:01 PM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: RE: DML: RE: ...Mileage...and oil
>
>
> I wanna know the truth! Not sure I can handle it
> though...
>
> Steve P.
> --- "Bernd D. Ratsch" <bernd@dodgetrucks.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > It's not a true synthetic Jon if it is derived
> from
> > base crude...and Group-4
> > isn't 100% synthetically engineered - Amsoil has
> > already admitted to that
> > years ago.
> >
> > - Bernd
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jon@dakota-truck.net
> > [mailto:jon@dakota-truck.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 5:51 PM
> > To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
> > Subject: Re: DML: RE: ...Mileage...and oil
> >
> >
> > "Bernd D. Ratsch" <bernd@dodgetrucks.org> wrote:
> >
> > > It's still the same crude oil that's used Jon.
> > The grade is mainly the
> > > quality of the crude...it's still all from
> crude.
> > Some people think that
> > > "synthetic" means that the oil was made from
> some
> > mad scientist in a
> > > lab...that's not where it comes from.
> >
> >
> > That is only partially correct. Although
> groups
> > 1, 2 and 3 are
> > indeed created from petroleum, group 4 base stock
> is
> > a true synthetic,
> > not derived from petroleum. It is created via a
> > chemical reaction,
> > "in a lab", as you say. (The sanity of the
> > scientists involved
> > notwithstanding.) :-) Although *most*
> "synthetic"
> > oils are actually
> > created from group 3 base stock, some are created
> > from group 4, such
> > as the original Mobil 1, I think Mobil 1 is group
> 3
> > now though.
> > Anyway, there are no dead dinosaurs in group 4.
> > Group 5 is also a
> > true synthetic, though I don't know of any oils
> > using it as a base
> > stock, group 5 is usually used to formulate
> > additives.
> >
> > A related factoid: Oil companies are allowed
> to
> > call "synthetic"
> > oil based on group 3 base stock a synthetic
> because
> > of the Exxon/Mobil vs
> > Castrol lawsuit in which Castrol was able to
> > convince the court that
> > group 3 was of sufficient quality to market the
> oil
> > as a "synthetic".
> > (Mobil 1 was using group 4 which is a true
> synthetic
> > and Castrol
> > Syntec was being made from the less expensive
> group
> > 3 and undercutting
> > Mobil 1 sales. Exxon/Mobil sued Castrol to stop
> > them from calling
> > group 3 oil synthetic, but Castrol won.)
> >
> >
> > --
> > -Jon-
> >
> > .- Jon Steiger -- jon@dakota-truck.net or
> > jon@jonsteiger.com -.
> > | '96 Kolb Firefly, '96 Suzuki Intruder,
> > Miscellaneous Mopars |
> > `--------------------------------
> > http://www.jonsteiger.com --'
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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