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To: rickmichaels

and by the way- warming up a car has more to do with wear and tear on things like pistons, rods etc- the oil is cold, and will not flow well, and if you simply start up then take off and floor it. you are putting tremendous stress o n things like the piston because they aren’t properly lubricated due to the low flow due to being cold


30 posted on 02/26/2015 3:03:23 PM PST by Bob434
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and by the way- warming up a car has more to do with wear and tear on things like pistons, rods etc- the oil is cold, and will not flow well, and if you simply start up then take off and floor it. you are putting tremendous stress o n things like the piston because they aren’t properly lubricated due to the low flow due to being cold

Exactly! Which is why I warm up my Jeep every day before driving away. It may be an '05 year model, but it has a 4.0 6 cylinder engine originally designed in the 1970s.

74 posted on 02/26/2015 4:03:07 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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That’s why I got in the habit of using synthetic motor oil during the winter months when I lived in Canada. Its viscosity isn’t affected by the cold the way traditional motor oil is.


89 posted on 02/26/2015 5:30:13 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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