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Just a car guy: The better oil test Seeing is believing just add weights (pressure) until weak competition oil can't hack it any more and surrenders to friction 11/26/2009

The better oil test; Seeing is believing; just add weights (pressure) until weak competition oil can't hack it any more and surrenders to friction

His accent masks the way he said that after 3 hundred pounds, "it fails". The Mobil One oil that is. Not that the ordinary lifter springs are 100 pounds of pressure on the camshaft, but they are over [more...]
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