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      05-16-2012, 05:47 PM   #67
Surly73
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Originally Posted by kiwi29 View Post
I just bought a whole case of 0w40 mobil 1, any thoughts? Will it work or is the weight off?
It's fine.

My personal empirical observation on M52 and M54 engines is that Mobil1 is significantly "noisier" than other oils but it's protection is excellent. Lab analysis on used M1 0W40 in my M52 was excellent. I switched to GC (Castrol 0W30 made in Germany) because of this noise issue. My M52 was transformed noise-wise by this change.

You're good to go.

You'll notice the bottle will specifically say LL-01 on it.
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