Why oils lose viscosity with use

[Chris M 0]

There is a Fuchs factory not far from my house in stoke, it used to be Century oils. It always makes me laugh when i see fuchs lubricants, sounds like something that you'd find in ann summers

[Chris M 0]

Oh oilman, what would you recomend for a modded G60?

[oilman 0]

How modded and what type of use?

 

Cheers

Simon

[ben16v 0]

whilst your at it, what about 1.8 16v with 152K standard, daily drive

 

thanks :wink:

[oilman 0]

10w-40 or 10w-50

 

Cheers

Simon

[Chris M 0]

I rebuilt the bottom end 12k ago to standard spec, the head will be getting bigger valves and port work shortly, everything else is just bolt on, chip & 68mm pulley etc. It gets used quite a lot ATM and caned quite regularly but once my van is back on the road it will be mostly doing short journeys with a good thrashing at the weekends.

[Dines 0]

If anyone wanted to know a little more about viscosity etc. The company I work for make high end Lube oil test equipment, including viscometers (don't worry, I'm not looking to sell anything - the equipment is generally used by ships and is several thousand £ each...).

 

Kittiwake

[oilman 0]

I rebuilt the bottom end 12k ago to standard spec, the head will be getting bigger valves and port work shortly, everything else is just bolt on, chip & 68mm pulley etc. It gets used quite a lot ATM and caned quite regularly but once my van is back on the road it will be mostly doing short journeys with a good thrashing at the weekends.

 

I'd look at Silkolene PRO S 10w-50 as a good option.

 

http://www.opieoils.co.uk/TechSpecs/PRO ... 0Wheel.pdf

 

Cheers

Simon

[STORM 2 0]

Very informative oilman, Its good to have someone on here with a sound technical know how and who obviously enjoys the field in which he works.....can you imagine going to a VW parts desk and asking about long molecular chain shearing and viscosity indices? Come to think of it you'd be lucky if they can produce 5L of anything except hot air

[oilman 0]

Sadly you're right, there's advice and there's proper advice.

 

You can't beat good technical advice backed up by proper explanations that's why we decided 2 years ago that most of what we read on the internet was "pub talk" with no foundation or technical knowledge.

 

That's why we're here!

 

Cheers

Simon