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Old 01-11-2019, 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Loperamide View Post
are you planning on getting the guides done any time soon? I use Mobil 1 5w30.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mobil-ESP-F...ywords=mobil+1
Not looking forward to that project

However, I only drive it about 6K miles per year and physical examination of the chain burnish marks indicates minimal wear.

Since the chain guides are polymer based I believe that oil temp may play an important role in the life of this critical component. Just a hypothesis, and why I make my used car buys at the top end of about 80K miles (typically one or two owner vehicles). Many of the chain guide disasters that I have read about seem to be somewhere in the 170K miles or so zone

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