Jaaah, but it's not too bad. I don't have to shovel heat. It's hard to
find lutefiske, though.
RIchard (Pyburn was Pibjorn) in San Antonio
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:19:06 -0500 fawcett@uism.bu.edu writes:
>A Swede living in Texas?! Damn, that's gotta' be the definition of
>culture
>shock! Sheesh!!... :-)
>
>(just funnin' you Texas boys, so set your flame throwers on
>medium-well
>instead of hellfire and damnation :-)
>
>T.
>(Damn Yankee in Boston)
>
>
>
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>Subject: DML: Slick 50
>Author: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net> at smtpout
>Date: 9/27/98 10:22 AM
>
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>I'm from Sweden but are now living and working in Texas (Dodge Dealer)
>for the
>past year because I got married to an American girl.
>Anyway, about Slick 50 here is my experience with it: First car I
>tried it in
>was a -83 Saab 900 Turbo with 150000 miles on it, did a oil change
>with Slick 50
>and drove the car for about 600 miles non stop, when I got to my
>destination the
>idle had gone up 400 rpm ????? You figure out why.
>Next one was a Fiat Croma Turbo -89 got the car new, broke it in with
>driving
>600 miles non stop highway. After that did oilchange to Mobil 1. Stock
>boost was
>0.5 bar, turn the boost up to 1.0 bar, after about 15000 miles I added
>Slick 50
>(then after every 50000 miles I added a new bottle of Slick 50).
>I did oil change with Mobil 1 every 6000 miles, after 167500 miles I
>blow the
>head gasket, so I thought I take the engine apart to see what else it
>needed.
>NOTHING, the engine was as clean as new inside, no trace after any
>"snakeoil" or
>other things.
>My point is, don't believe everything you read, make your own opinion
>and if you
>change oil regularly I have a very hard time to believe that Slick 50
>would do
>any damage to your engine, I have no experience with all the other
>"snake oil"
>but it was a major big oil company that both Slick 50 a couple of
>years ago. And
>if it was so bad that everybody says, why would they do that????????
>
>The Swede
>Waiting for my fully loaded -99 R/T CC Black (wish I could get it in
>white)
>
>
>
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