synthetic oil leak

[sofaking079]

i am right around the 3,000 mile mark to change my oil i hyave been useing regular oil but i have herd a lot of good things w/ synthetic but i have 73,000 some odd mailes and a little oil leak my old man said that if i used synthetic oil the leak would get worse what do you all think?
THANKS
-BEN-

[JAM]

Sythentics don't cause bad leaks. The fact that the gaskets need replacing do, and since some syth. may be a bit thinger it will leak if your gaskets are bad or need replaced. Most folks don't change all the gaskets like you should. Put in new gaskets, seals and so on, then have at it! LOL. [img]graemlins/burnout.gif[/img]

[sonya4]

I am not a professional on this - but I had a 3.4 with 71k on it and asked my local mechanic if I should change to synthetic and he said it wouldn't matter now because of the high miles already on the car. He primarily said it would be spending the extra money for a little, if any, difference.

As far as the leak goes - no clue. I do know they make a special oil for cars with higher miles...

Good luck with it!

Sonya

[sofaking079]

yeah thats what my dad said about the miles on my car so i was just going to verify that my old man isnt full of ****

[John_D.]

I've switched back and forth on my '98 Camaro (82,000 miles) and it hasn't made any difference.

I tried synthetic in my '94 Passport and it started leaking in the driveway overnight, so I switched back and it quit. 135,000 miles.

[camaro_speedemon]

When I got my car at 53k, my dad put regular 15-50 in it, then at around 90k I switched to mobil 1 10-40, and noticed a BIG difference. Probably because of the weight difference though, I have no idea why my dad wanted me to put 15-50 in it and he was buying the oil. I finally just said screw it, I wanna put 10-40 in it so I ended up buying my own oil.