If you haven't been to the stores lately, something has been happening since early summer...
Conventional, true conventional, motor oils are as gone as the dinosaurs from which they were made.
If you're lucky enough to find something mis-labeled "conventional" you will see it now has a "SP" rating on the jug... meaning it's actually a syn-blend at best. Which, you probably will also find in fine print somewhere on jug or in data sheets.
If you noticed more drips in the driveway then you're probably right.
So, prepare to be pulling motors and spending LOTS of money and time chasing oil leaks that spring from your forced conversion to the crap that has greater propensity to seep and weep through tiny spaces than good old Dino oil did/does.
Yes, the spaces the oil leaks through were already there. But the old stuff didn't make it through them.
"Progress"... <sigh>
Conventional, true conventional, motor oils are as gone as the dinosaurs from which they were made.
If you're lucky enough to find something mis-labeled "conventional" you will see it now has a "SP" rating on the jug... meaning it's actually a syn-blend at best. Which, you probably will also find in fine print somewhere on jug or in data sheets.
If you noticed more drips in the driveway then you're probably right.
So, prepare to be pulling motors and spending LOTS of money and time chasing oil leaks that spring from your forced conversion to the crap that has greater propensity to seep and weep through tiny spaces than good old Dino oil did/does.
Yes, the spaces the oil leaks through were already there. But the old stuff didn't make it through them.
"Progress"... <sigh>