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On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:39, Keith Park wrote: > 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? I did it when I got my '71. My sister just used dino oil. When I got the car off her, it had been sitting since '85. I changed the oil with dino, and ran it for about 1 week. I then change the oil again and cleaned the screen, and put the Mobil 1 in it. > > 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. > We had a customer back in the 60's that was an Amzoil dealer. He ran amzoil in his VW's without a filter. He actually drove a '68 T-3 Squareback. -- 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~