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[oprn]

Pretty hard to go back in time and check out what you had. Yes the standard grades do thicken up a lot more than multigrades. Cold starting has always been the strong point of the old air cooled VWs in my experience, once they had 12 volt systems that is.

We always switched to 20 weight oil when the temperatures got down to the freezing point - no issues at all with starting. In my experience a 10W30 pours about the same as a straight 20 weight at that temperature.

Personally I have never and I will not run any oil in any engine for 10,000 miles, I don't care how good it is, it's contaminated and the additive package went south long ago!

If you are having starting issue as warm as freezing, I would guess you have a fuel mixture deficiency for cold starting not an oil weight problem. With a properly set up and tuned air cooled VW, you shouldn't be having starting problems until you are below -30*F. At that point they start to get a bit finicky... unless you have an oil pan heater, then they start like summer time.
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[nextgen]

The 10,000 Was only incase I could not get any oil. We had to wait hours for gas, and when and if we got to the pumps. Also odd and even days and only 10 gallons max.

I had a company car and when waiting needed to pee, we had called some on to take my place in line.

The company bought 10 Diesel Rabbits so they can use home heating oil.
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[madmike]

My System 1 filter has 'Mud' on the bottom plate when I clean it ,I'd say it's 'sludge'
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[oprn]

There are two kinds of sludge in my experience.

The first is the milky kind that forms in cool weather and short trips. That is water contamination from the oil never getting warm enough. A paper based oil filter will soak up some but once it reaches saturation it will go through with the oil. What helps here is to make sure your thermostat and flaps are in good working condition but even that doesn't prevent it if your trips are too short. Then more frequent oil changes is the answer.

The second type is the gray/black muck that forms on the bottom of your engine. In the crankcase and tapped covers. That for the most part is carbon along with minute wear particles. This stuff is what makes your oil dark and eventually black if you leave it in there long enough. It is too fine for a full flow filter to catch and your oil additive package is designed to coat those particles and keep them in suspension until the next oil change.

If the oil is not changes soon enough the additive package becomes overwhelmed and it starts to drop out in any nook and cranny that is not washed vigorously with normal engine operation. You may find some of this that has settled out in the bottom of your filter canister but the majority of it passes right through the element looking for a quiet corner in the engine to settle. An engine who's oil is changed regular enough will have little to none of this sludge in it.

I once bought a tractor that the owner had not changed oil in 10 years, just added because it burned oil so... that is the same right? When I pulled the drain plug nothing came out! The oil pan was full of this sludge to the point that the oil pump pickup was in a trough in the sludge. I scooped and scraped about 10 pounds of this sludge out of that pan! There was also a substantial buildup under the valve cover.

The contrast to that was Dad's Bay Window Bus that had the oil changed religiously by the book and when we took it apart for the first rebuild you could have eaten off any part of the inside of that engine! It was clean clean! And... in '69 there was NO filter on those engines!
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[DerrickfromNC1]

Anyone using Speedmaster reusable oil filter? I just ordered one $62.50.

https://www.amazon.com/Speedmaster-PCE-PCE298-1001...amp;sr=8-3

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sdm-pce298-1001?rrec=true

Thanks

[madmike]

'Shorty?',,looks like the 'Geers' I just picked up
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[DerrickfromNC1]

Amazon left me this!

Seems to be pretty sturdy. I have a System 1 filter that I’m going to compare it to. Unfortunately their website doesn’t have any info on how microns his filter this filter filters.

https://www.speedmaster79.com/Ford-Billet-Aluminum...ent-Magnet

[Glenn]