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Originally Posted by cycleguy55
Consistent with your comments...
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There are many myths, and perpetuated wives' tales, surrounding
oil, its makeup, its additives, its pressure, its temperature, how to get condensation out of it, how often to change it, and so on. Sometimes, the source of an old tale was the result of an effort to get that last little eensy bit of horsepower out of an engine, without a real concern on whether you're going to have to rebuild it again next year. Other times, it's the attempt to allocate "common sense" to the problem even though that's the absolute wrong approach to take. Like, for instance, water becomes vapor at 212 degrees, so you have to get your
oil up to 212 degrees in order to get the water out, right? And, of course, there's always the old "more is better" approach, which gets applied to
oil pressure, ZDDP percentages, etc. It's just hard to tell some people that everything they've known to be true for decades is just plain wrong.
