[DML] Re: DeLo's In Year 'Round Use

["Harold McElraft" <hmcelraft@xxxxxxx>]

20w50 is your cold starting problem. Too thick for an easy cold 
start. 5w50 would work better if you feel you have to have 50w but 
that is usually synthetic and much more expensive. BTW why are you 
using 50w?

Harold McElraft - 3354


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxx> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> Living in Texas, it is easy to use the car year round.
> However, warming it up takes for ever.
> I am considering putting an on/off switch on my fans to help warm 
it up 
> quicker.
> It was really cold this morning, almost freezing...
> Yesterday I changed my oil and put in Castroil GTX 20/50, and a 
bottle of 
> Lucus.
> This morning when I tried to start the car, the engine that 
normally pops on 
> in one turn
> spun round and round and wouldn't start.
> I let it sit for a second and then let it spin some more and it 
slowly 
> putterd on.
> It was fine after that, but that is the first time I have seen it 
do that.
> 
> I drive my car all year round but have learned to avoid wet days.
> Since I have about 7 vehicles to choose from I might as well spare 
it.
> 
> After my experience on wet roads with this car, I would avoid icy 
situations 
> at all costs.
> So I suppose that if I lived in a snowy area I would just garage 
the car for 
> a few months.
> Drive some other kind of dissposable car in the winter, like a 
Vette. ;P
> 
> - Videobob








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