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Old 2005-06-29, 06:47 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by sperry
...as Mike Shields told me, he's never seen oiling issues on any of their rally cars, and they're drivin quite hard.

So the oil think might have contributed, but there's no reason not to suspect the simple age of the motor and the hard load I was putting on it as the primary culprits.
Did you ask Mike about the weight oil you were running? I think you said 10-50... As far as I know, you are the only one I know running anything near that heavy an oil. I know it is under the heavy use section in the manual, but [0,5]-30 & 10-40 are much more common. It would be interesting to get his take on it.
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