oil additive
Melting Slicks
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 2,562
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From: (Temporarily) Colorado Springs Colorado
From your owners manual
Engine Oil Additives
Don’t add anything to your oil. The recommended oils
with the starburst symbol are all you will need for good
performance and engine protection.
Engine Oil Additives
Don’t add anything to your oil. The recommended oils
with the starburst symbol are all you will need for good
performance and engine protection.
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: St. Peters MO
Slick 50 is teflon based..............ever notice what happens to a teflon coated pan after it's heated and colled a few hundered times...
The only engine additive I've ever heard of that is wirth looking into would be ER (Energy Release) it has a guarantee to replace any engine up to $100k if it causes damage to your engine......but good luck on getting that prooven.
Truthfully no need to put any kind of additive in a motor that runs with synthetic oil.
But if you're determined to do something "better" than what it came with then you could consider Amsoil which would be pretty much the same as mobil 1 but if you added their "special by-pass filter" system with it..........it claims to completely stop engine wear.......and you never change oil......every 15k or maybe it's 25k you take a sample of your oil and send it in and they will tell you when to change the by-pass filter you then top it off again (about 2 qt's)........the claim is that synthetic oil never breaks down.
Not sure how factual all that is........my father runs Amsoil in everything he has..........changes filter every 7,500 and oil and filter at 15k he's never had any issues with doing this.
I ran Amsoil in my 2 cycle jetski and it performed great.....never smoked same with my dads outboards....never had any plug fouling either.
Good as it may or may not be, I'm still using Mobil 1
The only engine additive I've ever heard of that is wirth looking into would be ER (Energy Release) it has a guarantee to replace any engine up to $100k if it causes damage to your engine......but good luck on getting that prooven.
Truthfully no need to put any kind of additive in a motor that runs with synthetic oil.
But if you're determined to do something "better" than what it came with then you could consider Amsoil which would be pretty much the same as mobil 1 but if you added their "special by-pass filter" system with it..........it claims to completely stop engine wear.......and you never change oil......every 15k or maybe it's 25k you take a sample of your oil and send it in and they will tell you when to change the by-pass filter you then top it off again (about 2 qt's)........the claim is that synthetic oil never breaks down.
Not sure how factual all that is........my father runs Amsoil in everything he has..........changes filter every 7,500 and oil and filter at 15k he's never had any issues with doing this.
I ran Amsoil in my 2 cycle jetski and it performed great.....never smoked same with my dads outboards....never had any plug fouling either.
Good as it may or may not be, I'm still using Mobil 1
Instructor
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 122
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From: Forest Park Illinois
Slick 50 is teflon based..............ever notice what happens to a teflon coated pan after it's heated and colled a few hundered times...
The only engine additive I've ever heard of that is wirth looking into would be ER (Energy Release) it has a guarantee to replace any engine up to $100k if it causes damage to your engine......but good luck on getting that prooven.
Truthfully no need to put any kind of additive in a motor that runs with synthetic oil.
But if you're determined to do something "better" than what it came with then you could consider Amsoil which would be pretty much the same as mobil 1 but if you added their "special by-pass filter" system with it..........it claims to completely stop engine wear.......and you never change oil......every 15k or maybe it's 25k you take a sample of your oil and send it in and they will tell you when to change the by-pass filter you then top it off again (about 2 qt's)........the claim is that synthetic oil never breaks down.
Not sure how factual all that is........my father runs Amsoil in everything he has..........changes filter every 7,500 and oil and filter at 15k he's never had any issues with doing this.
I ran Amsoil in my 2 cycle jetski and it performed great.....never smoked same with my dads outboards....never had any plug fouling either.
Good as it may or may not be, I'm still using Mobil 1
The only engine additive I've ever heard of that is wirth looking into would be ER (Energy Release) it has a guarantee to replace any engine up to $100k if it causes damage to your engine......but good luck on getting that prooven.
Truthfully no need to put any kind of additive in a motor that runs with synthetic oil.
But if you're determined to do something "better" than what it came with then you could consider Amsoil which would be pretty much the same as mobil 1 but if you added their "special by-pass filter" system with it..........it claims to completely stop engine wear.......and you never change oil......every 15k or maybe it's 25k you take a sample of your oil and send it in and they will tell you when to change the by-pass filter you then top it off again (about 2 qt's)........the claim is that synthetic oil never breaks down.
Not sure how factual all that is........my father runs Amsoil in everything he has..........changes filter every 7,500 and oil and filter at 15k he's never had any issues with doing this.
I ran Amsoil in my 2 cycle jetski and it performed great.....never smoked same with my dads outboards....never had any plug fouling either.
Good as it may or may not be, I'm still using Mobil 1
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: St. Peters MO
My Yamaha service manual said to use nothing but Yamalube 2 cycle oil.....so what!
I don't always do what the TV tells me to...........I'm a rebel
Melting Slicks
Joined: Jan 2007
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From: Sandy Ego Ca.
I use this
Originally Posted by Info
Is a concentrated MOS2 (Molybdenum disulfide) additive, which can be added to your existing motor oil. Offering you the same load absorbing protection as the MOS2 ANTIFRICTION oil. MOS2 is a protective barrier for older engines with marginal oil pressure. Helps protect upper valve train components , where low pressure oil starvation normally occurs. Great protection for new cars also
Le Mans Master
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From: Communist Colorado
I dont put any addatives in my Vettes. I DO use one in my work truck though.....Lucas. I have 155k miles on the engine & it uses no oil & really looks pretty clean even after 5500 miles of use.
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From: Phoenix AZ
The Vette, no.
In my 93 Tahoe I put some slick 50 in at 36,000 miles.
I once forgot to change the oil for 25 k miles.
It now has 180,000 on it,some of the hardest trailer pulling, 4X4ing, sand duning abuse evar, and it still runs great.
I have however replaced the transmission 3 times, 2 water pumps, power steering pump, 4 radiators, rotors, drums, wheel cylinders and calipers, 3 alternators, ujoints, starter, AC comperssor, rear end gears and all bearings, and some little stuff.:o
Does it work on an old iron block? Who knows.
Lucky for me I was an ASE master tech, so I didnt have to spend anything but parts on the repairs or this truck would have cost me $100,000 by now.
In my 93 Tahoe I put some slick 50 in at 36,000 miles.
I once forgot to change the oil for 25 k miles.
It now has 180,000 on it,some of the hardest trailer pulling, 4X4ing, sand duning abuse evar, and it still runs great.
I have however replaced the transmission 3 times, 2 water pumps, power steering pump, 4 radiators, rotors, drums, wheel cylinders and calipers, 3 alternators, ujoints, starter, AC comperssor, rear end gears and all bearings, and some little stuff.:o
Does it work on an old iron block? Who knows.
Lucky for me I was an ASE master tech, so I didnt have to spend anything but parts on the repairs or this truck would have cost me $100,000 by now.