A good reason to change your oil

Maintenance advice to keep your Spider in shape.
Alleycat124

Re: A good reason to change your oil

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Thnanks for the information. Ethanol is killing boat motors lawn mowers cars etc. etc. Unreal.
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Your car is a: 1978 124 Spider with Isuzu Turbo Diesel

Re: A good reason to change your oil

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Alleycat124 wrote:Thnanks for the information. Ethanol is killing boat motors lawn mowers cars etc. etc. Unreal.
On the cars with a mechanical fuel pump when Ethanol prematurely eats away the rubber diaphragm the fuel can spray into the crankcase diluting and corrupting the oil causing corrosion too. If you start getting a funny smell coming from your dipstick or oil cap or the oil level at times seems a bit higher than it should be then its time to stop driving the car and check the mechanical fuel pump.
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