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Old 08-21-2004, 10:30 PM
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i've been using Mobile 1 in everything for the last twenty plus years or whenever they started making it.

Nothing has ever failed or smoked and i drive the pants off everything all the time.

Motorcycles, race boats, vettes, cobs, trucks and smowmobiles.

Everything that is, except aircraft. A friend of mine at Lycoming suggested avoiding the Mobil 1 they prepared for aviation about ten years or so until there was a clear field experience that said it was OK. He was a very older guy that started on OX-5's, ran P & W radials during the WWII and is very careful.

He gave me good advice. Aviation Mobile 1 was a complete and abject failure. Mobile paid for the overhaul of many dozens of engines at $15K to $30K a pop to settle their potential lawsuits from the damages caused by the oil. At least, Mobile did step up to the plate and pay.

So, before i took the plunge on this oil for a semi-street engine, i would wait a bit and look for results.

Street is not race.
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