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Old 02-06-2008, 09:48 AM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dremd View Post
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I didn't mean to demean your post; I was actually trying to give it a boost by showing that thinner oils can pass as thicker ones without anyone noticing.
That's what I get for reading posts before breakfast. I missed that. Maybe I should take up coffee-drinking.

I find it interesting that the brand he ends up liking most because of its higher viscosity (the OEM G52) apparently doesn't have an oil weight on the package. Same with the GM syncromesh I'm using in my car rather than the manual-recommended 75-90. The syncromesh bottle has no weight info on it, yet it's clearly much lighter than 75-90.

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