Oil and Cars Diatribe 05 28 2025

The rust belt. Does synthetic oil that is tainted with rust break down quicker because the rust in there has a more transferable oxidative effect?

So the bottle says that it lasts 20k? Never do that. Never let it go anywhere that long in new cars. Why not? It is horrible advice. Go 3k.

So when the oil gels in there because it is old and cruddy does it affect the hydraulic tensioners and gum them up and prevent them from working correctly?

And then lets say you run a cleaner through the engine to remove the gum. Is the hydraulic tensioner then loose worn, whereby it will not hold tension at low rpm low oil pressure.

So the next part relates to a US Car makers recall of trucks. They either put a new engine in them because they were ruined or they inspected the engine and recommended the owner put a heavier weight oil in them, I believe from 0 w 30 to 0 w 40.

And what about 5 w 30 versus 5 w 40 . Similar to the comparison between 0 w 30 and 0 w 40 for the Chevy Silverado truck?

And so you wonder if the parts that failed with the thinner oil were made in the U.S.A? And I also wonder if there are people hired as U.S. Engineers who have no allegiance to our Democracy?

So I would ask you this. Take 5 w 30 versus 5 w 40. At standard room temperature which is thicker, more viscosity? Can you tell by moving each the same about in a glass jar? Can you feel it between your fingers wearing rubber gloves? Can you see it is thicker?

So what makes it thicker at higher temperatures? What specific ingredient?

Now I was an associate Specialty Chemical Analyst and I was talking to a VP of a co. And I can't tell you what they sold. But he confided in me with regard to the lineup which seemed like it was highly specialized with certain additives for this one and such and such. He said to me, “You know the chemicals are all the same?”

But what am I getting at.

Why in the h3ll would you ever tell a United States Citizen their oil is good to 20,000 miles in a car? It is going to junk that car!

And it is the oil company that is doing that. Making that statement. Why?

Because you didn't believe in our form of Government? After all you are non working class that just taps your money straight out of the ground. And therefore you want the United States Automobile industry to fail? Again for the same reason. You say that they would lose money in the process? It wouldn't matter if they toppled a democracy! Money wouldn't matter. They would have power and that would equate to money. Ownership of that tap would be money. Less demand just raise the price.

So indeed I once read that 3 oil company executives came up from the South and threatened JFK two weeks before he was assassinated. So that is where I get this tie in here.

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So in order to get antique status as a car it has to be 20 years old. What if United States cars had to be warrantied for 20 years in line with that? I mean, who need to spend all that money and have all kinds of problems with reliability?

And was meeting higher emissions standards the nail in the coffin for U.S. Auto makers? Some how Japan kept rolling along. But the U.S. Seems to have tombstones of troubles with their cars during this era? Their cars were made smaller. Because they are smaller? It is like buying a shirt made overseas, it is supposed to be 2x and it fits tight like a Medium?

But if you wanted to bring down our Democracy you would choke off our mobility? I mean could there be electric car tech that could go 2000 miles on a charge? Or are we going to get that technological plateau argument? I will tell you about solar energy, and then end this article or diatribe or whatever you call it. So when I was a boy I had a toy. It had a solar cell the size of a Silver Dollar and it powered a motor with a propeller on it while in the sun. It had no battery. Now there are solar powered gable fans. The electric motor is about the same size as the motor in your refrigerator. And it is stated that of everything in your house the refrigerator uses the most electricity. But that gable fan motor is powered by a solar panel that is about 14” by 14”. So figure it out. Don't try and argue in your thinking. Just figure it out. Don't hold stubborn to a stroke. Just figure it out.

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Those three alphanumeric mean it is multi-grade (Many Viscosity).  Boy doesn't that sound like a Hokus Pokus sale being made to natives?  Get your Many Viscosity Oil here.

https://www.usedcars.com/advice/maintenance/what-do-the-numbers-on-oil-mean

But lets look at viscosity numbers on a can of oil. The number before the W equals cold weather performance. The number after the W equals ….how well it performs when the engine gets hot? So oil does get thinner when hot.

The smaller the first number the thinner the oil is and the more it will flow easily at startup. The W actually means Winter.

But how is multi-viscosity achieved in oil?

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=how+it+multiviscosity+achieved

“Multi-viscosity oils, also known as multi-grade oils, are achieved through the addition of viscosity index improvers (VIIs), which are polymers that modify the oil's viscosity at different temperatures.”

So polymers is the key word above. Polymers equal plastics?

General Google Answer.

“Yes, all plastics are polymers, but not all polymers are plastics. Plastics are a specific type of polymer, usually synthetic, that can be molded or shaped. Other types of polymers, like natural materials such as cellulose or proteins, are not considered plastics.”

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=are+polymers+plastics According to https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=17477

So lets say that you have a 0 w 40 oil. The 0 means it is very thin for cold weather and will flow quickly? But is there an instance whereby that might not be true? For example rust oxidation in the oil, could that cause it to cold sludge quicker? But 0 w 40. So the 40 means it is thicker at hotter temperatures in the engine. So how do you get from thin to thick at hotter, when oil gets thin when hotter? And was is the instance or residue formation because of that? So you would answer me that those are superchemicals and I just don't understand the issue? It isn't a pure oil any more. It has something else in it. So it has to be a base of a very thin synthetic oil and the additives in it are what make it thicker or perform better at hotter temperatures?

So I had a two stroke outboard that ran on synthetic oil mixed in. And the fumes of that were terrible. What was burning?

Is it the same resin that is in epoxy? It created the same sickness. Not a lot of people can work with Epoxy for too long before getting sick. I am just making that assertion. Again, IDK what you think about it.

Ever drive your car up a hill on a freeway? Just head West from Milwaukee and you will. And synthetic oil in the maze chamber built into the valve cover then finds its way through the pc valve and is burned in the engine? And it is that same sickening smell. And if you can find a place to install an oil catch can you may have solved the problem.

I tell you, I had to vent this. I don't care if you think critically of it.

So the point here is that something isn't being made correctly. And there is no valid authority oversight. Who knew.

So you add a polymer to an oil that gets thicker as the oil gets hotter? Because it expands and becomes gooey? And then when the oil cools it is no longer gooey? Oh you would say it doesn't get thicker. It is just a protective effect that equates to increased viscosity at higher temperatures. Doesn't it seem like gobbley gook to you?

What if it just means this, they put something in the oil that prevents it from burning at higher temperatures? Now what would that mean.

So is there a cycle effect to this? And how many cycles can it handle before it breaks down? Can it still be thin oil, and hold a lot of dirt, but...

Are you trying to tell me that 5 quarts of oil can hold 20,000 miles of dirt in them? (no mention of oil filter clogging or reduced flow rate) Perhaps that says it best. Come on lab coat guy, pose your counterargument. You gave up didn't you! 

© 2025 Thomas Paul Murphy

This is all pure conjecture. 

So you heated something in it up and that thickened and then when the oil cooled that which was heated and thicker cooled back into suspension?  Under what circumstances?

I wonder if anyone has ever made a successful claim (warranty of specific use or purpose) on that?  (You can't prove anything unless you have a billion bucks and nobody can prove anything against you if you have a billion bucks?  And you got your billion bucks by making hokus pokus statements like that?

You know, if you think about what I just wrote above doesn't it seem like there are a lot of issues Americans could make a claim on?

I am not going to lie to you, there is a group of people that I absolutely can't stand.