Miata Mailing List: October 1994, Message #157
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Subject: Re: special oil filter wren
   Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 18:24:34 -0400

Bob,

On 10 Oct 1994, you wrote:

> I always thought that it was better to get the engine *real* hot
> before draining the oil, so that more of the impurities would
> be solubilized and removed in the hot oil, rather than precipitating
> out in the cooled oil (and staying in the engine).  Have I been 
> burning my hands for nothing all these years? 

I'm not enough of a chemist to know if your approach is valid.  It very 
well could be.  I'll have to ask one of my Materials Engineers what he 
thinks about this.
Later,
Tom