WHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN IN OIL WEIGHT? 10W30

Weight and Oil Viscosity Oil is like pancake syrup, on cool days oil would be as thick (viscous) as Mrs. Butterworth’s stored in the refrigerator. At high temperature, though, it would get uselessly thin, like microwaved syrup. Long ago, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) developed a rating system for oil viscosity, the most basic […]