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Re: oil consumption

In a message dated 7/29/07 7:33:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
bill.moss@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< My oil temperature  runs 5 bars on the RID with the occasional 6 bars in traffic or at high  speeds. This is well within the normal operating specifications for a  synthetic oil; five bars is approx. 105 Celsius and six is approx. 130  C. Other lubricants may have a higher vapor pressure at these  temperatures and therefore suffer greater loss. >>

25C sounds like a fairly significant range, I'm curious if you've measured 
this and the cnageover between 5-6 bars occurs at different points or?  

Cheers
Paul
NJ

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