Jay,
     I am not so sure that synthetic oil is cost
effective here.
I use synthetic in my turbo passat because it runs
hotter than the vanagon and you can smell how it burns
the oil.   To me the best thing you can do for the
vanagon is change the oil every 3k with what ever oil
works best and that will be expensive if you run
synthetic.
      gary
ate:    Fri, 8 Jun 2007 06:57:51 -0400
From:    Jay Brown <badkarma@TTLC.NET>
Subject: Switching to synthetic oil?

I am thinking about switching over to a full Synthetic
(Castrol Syntech
5W-50) from regular dino oil (Castrol GTX 20W-50) in
my '85 Westfalia.
Are
there any special precautions I should take when
making the switch?
The van
doesn't currently leak any oil and I haven't had any
oil pressure
troubles,
I would just like the extra protection that the full
synthetic claims
to
offer.

Thanks in advance.
Jay Brown
'85 Westfalia
'72 Riviera

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