Harry,
For a year you have been wishing the real Skipper would grace us with his
presence. Now that he has, you "pretend" it is not Dave Mann. If you
really want to know, give Dave a call, or send him email to the address he
used 2 yrs ago.

You haven't done either, because you know this is the real deal. You have
gotten your wish.



"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Gene Kearns wrote:
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:09:24 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Skipper wrote:
JP wrote:

I have 2001 4.3 Liter Mrecruiser I/O. I know all the Merc manuals all
say use only the Merc brand oil, but I want to know if using Mobil 1
synthetic will be better for the engine.


Received the following e-mail from a fellow at Mercruiser. He was
relaying information he received from their oil specialists in Fond du
Lac.

There has been quite a discussion about whether Quicksilver oil is
multi-viscosity or not. The following speaks for itself:
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I suppose if you are trying to "fake" being Skipper, there are many of
his cut and pastes moldering around, like this one. Which was posted a
dozen times by Skipper in his attempt to show he knew something about
boats.

So true. If you google up the prior posting of this nonsense, you'll
see how I debunked this whole "Quicksilver" oil myth by explaining
through the sales department's hyperbole.

According to Mercury, they mix a SAE 25 and SAE 40 oil and call it a
25W40 oil. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING concerning the formulation or
rating of oils that makes THE LEAST sense in this as relates to a
multi-viscosity oil. The 25W oil rating has nearly nothing to do with
viscosity.

Take two base stocks, say, SAE 25 and SAE 40, mix them together and
you have some single weight oil with a viscosity of something between
SAE 25 and SAE 40. You do NOT have a 25W40 oil.

The only significant bit of information in the article is that single
weight oils are not subject to the failure of viscosity improvers and,
thus, may offer more protection than synthetic oils.


Accurate technical knowledge about any aspect of boating was never the
real Skippy's forte.