Re: SynOil

Shody,

Synthetic oil is not produced as a petroleum derivative.  It is made  
from some other chemicals which have long names...  As for "esters,"  
of which biodiesel is one, I don't think you have that right either.   
You'd need to provide more specifics.

As for synthetics not working well in high mileage motors, note  
kevin's last post regarding his air cooled VW's performance on  
synthetic oil.

Jerry


On Oct 31, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Shody Ryon wrote:

> 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
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> 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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