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Oil Analysis Results! (longish)
Posted by jefla [Email] (more from jefla) on Sun, 29 Dec 2002 02:41:00
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I had my first oil analysis done, and the results are interesting. Using Castrol 5-50 synthetic in my 92 9kt (Griffin) over 3300 miles, it shows there doesn't seem to be much wear going on. Iron wear is at 17 ppm with a "limit" of 100ppm; copper wear is at 7 ppm with a limit of 40 ppm, and so on. I have a couple of questions, though.
In the message line at the bottom of the analysis, they state that the oil needed to be changed because the levels of silicon (sand, dirt,etc) were too high, but the silicone level is at 9 ppm with a limit of 20 ppm - in the normal range.
Also, it recorded a viscosity of SAE 40W, but it doesn't say at what temp. Is there an industry standard temp (100 deg C?) when measuring viscosity? If that were the case, then all is good because the viscosity modifers are still working well at 3.3k. But if it that weight at a cold temp, then that is not good.
Lastly, where it says "fuel dilution", it does not give a value, just the letter "p". What does this mean? It says that "p" is abnormal. Could this be related to my crappy idle?
Any thoughts?
Jeffla
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Posts in this Thread:
- Oil Analysis Results! (longish), jefla, Sun, 29 Dec 2002 02:41:00 <-- Viewing This Message
- Currently my car does not idle for a long time, because, Jeffla, Mon, 30 Dec 2002 05:00:26
- Oil article in next NINES, Stephen Goldberger, Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:56:42
- Re: Oil Analysis Results! (longish), Eli5, Sun, 29 Dec 2002 09:21:14
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