Re: SynOil

Hi,
I knew an Amsoil dealer in the late 1980s who was a chemist. He is the one who told me that the lubricating aspect of synoil was ester (sp) and that ester occurred in different amounts in different brands of oil and that Amsoil had reduced the amount of ester in it's motor oil products some time prior to when I met him (in the 1980s or 1970s?) and that Neo had a higher amount of ester. He loved the other Amsoil products like their air cleaners, engine/head/intake manifold cleaning foam, oil filters(?) and metal protector.
I don't mean to be disparaging to any product and I do believe Amsoil is a superior oil to conventional motor oil. I am not convinced that it is worth changing an old vehicle to syn motor oil because of the cleaning qualities of synoil and the amount of carbon/sludge in older conventional oil engines.
As far as veg oil vs. synoil ... I had assumed that conventional oil/petroleum were associated and synoil/veg based oil were associated. Are you proposing that synoil is highly processed petroleum?? New Zealand produces synthetic gasoline ... made from a plant source, hence the label synthetic, correct?
Shody

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From: kevin orme <[email protected]>
To: General Biodiesel discussion <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 11:21:49 PM
Subject: Re: [pdx-biodiesel] SynOil


that would be news to me and I seriously doubt that.  Before I started
using Amsoil in my old air-cooled vws (which are pretty hard on oil,
given that they have no filter and no internal cooling system EXCEPT for
the oil) I read a comparison of amsoil, redline, mobil 1, etc. and
amsoil was #2 - redline was #1 but it costs over twice as much as amsoil
(and amsoil is usually about 1/3 more than mobil 1, for example).  But
the performance stats were there and I always noticed better mileage and
cold starts, etc. when using it.  My dad and father-in-law were big
skeptics too but tried it and never looked back either.  No, i'm not a
dealer - just a happy user.  Seems to me between using biod and
synthetic you could EASILY get 500K+ out of an ol' TDI, eh?  :)

kevin
Seattle


On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 22:59 -0800, Shody Ryon wrote:
> Hi
> I was told that most (all) synthetic oil compamies "water down" synthetic oil! Years ago there was a company named Eon. It turns out some one else already had the name, so eon was changed to neo. Neo had a good reputation ... years ago. I wonder if pure jojoba oil is a better deal than offical synthetic motor oil? Of coarse jojoba will not have weight (like 5-30). There is a very large organic jojoba farm in California: laronnajojoba.com
> 
> Shody
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