Good point, I agree.
Like I said in my last post, the wear metals in the gunk that the synth cleans up will actually screw up your readings.

You can begin to devellop a VERY vague baseline with the sludged oil analyses, but you really are better off saving your money. At least for the first run with delvac 1... Youre already paying a lot of $$$ for oil youll be dumping prematurely.

JMH

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