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<blockquote data-quote="Roger Lord" data-source="post: 27478" data-attributes="member: 195"><p>Hi </p><p>All this rot about synthetic oil causing the rollers to skid, That all came out when multigrade oil was first introduced, it's just an old wives tail (or is that mechanics tail) Rollers skid anyway as the inner and outer race of any roller are of different diameters so the roller has to skid a bit on one of them. The oil helps to lubricate this. the better the oil the better it lubricates as it ages, just don't use synthetic untill you have run the motor in. You should know that the roller bearings in a gas turbine both the thrust bearings and the support bearings (turbo fan, turbo shaft and turbo prop) are all lubricated with fully synthetic oil They only have roller bearings in them and they run for a lot longer than a Vin between oil changes. I have never heard of those bearings having a problem with skidding caused by the use of synthetic oil. </p><p>Use the best oil you have, and don't listen to all the old wives tails. Synthetic oils are use in applications that have both roller bearing and gears, with no adverse effects, in fact most of them do a lot better on synthetic than on mineral oil, My old citroen's gearbox improved dramatically when changed from mineral oil to synthetic oil and that's full of bearings and gears.</p><p></p><p>All the best Roger Lord</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roger Lord, post: 27478, member: 195"] Hi All this rot about synthetic oil causing the rollers to skid, That all came out when multigrade oil was first introduced, it's just an old wives tail (or is that mechanics tail) Rollers skid anyway as the inner and outer race of any roller are of different diameters so the roller has to skid a bit on one of them. The oil helps to lubricate this. the better the oil the better it lubricates as it ages, just don't use synthetic untill you have run the motor in. You should know that the roller bearings in a gas turbine both the thrust bearings and the support bearings (turbo fan, turbo shaft and turbo prop) are all lubricated with fully synthetic oil They only have roller bearings in them and they run for a lot longer than a Vin between oil changes. I have never heard of those bearings having a problem with skidding caused by the use of synthetic oil. Use the best oil you have, and don't listen to all the old wives tails. Synthetic oils are use in applications that have both roller bearing and gears, with no adverse effects, in fact most of them do a lot better on synthetic than on mineral oil, My old citroen's gearbox improved dramatically when changed from mineral oil to synthetic oil and that's full of bearings and gears. All the best Roger Lord [/QUOTE]
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