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Yea, I remember you telling me that. Perhaps its because the engines are much smaller and dont deal with the same amounts of sludge, OR that they use Synthetic from day one and never get any sludge build up in the first place. I wonder if they would recommend changing over to it on an older engine? The amzoil rep shut up pretty fast when I told them I was not running an oil filter... and that none of the Bugs ever had one. They said that it was not recommended for use without a filter. Keith > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:51, Keith Park wrote: > > Using Synthetic without a filter is NOT reccommended by the oil manufacturer > > and is what was the cause of my engines distruction. You need to filter out > > all the neatly stored contaminants that are worked loose by the synthetic > > and get circulated through the bearings. > > > Briggs & Stratton doesn't have filters on a lot of their engines, and > yet they recommend syntheic for all of their engines used under extreme > conditions. And they build a LOT MORE air cooled engines than VW ever > has, or ever will. > I have been using Mobil1 in my engines since it first came out. I have > yet to have an engine failure. Yours is the only one I have ever heard > of. > > -- > Russ Wolfe > '71 FB AT > '66 FB MT > '64 T34 (not running) > '65 T1 (not running) > '05 KIA Sorento SUV > russw@classicvw.org > http://www.classicvw.org > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >