Restore?
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Restore?
Has anyone tried Restore engine restorer and lubricant with CSL? Check it out. I'm a little skeptical of a $7 can of stuff that restores compression to normal. Just wanted to know if anyone's tried it and how it worked out.
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It works. I've used it in all types of motors for 15 years. I bought a VW rabbit with over 150k hard miles, it wouldn't pull up a hill on the main hwy. without downshifting. After the restore was ran a couple of days I would need to let up on the throttle on the same hill to keep from speeding.
I also was building racing go kart motors around this time. The cylinders in these things get scored very easy. I would mix a small amount of restore with the oil. Every time I got protested, and had to tear down, you could see what looked like big scratches in the cylinder walls, but when you felt the cylinder, it was smooth as glass. The stuff in restore had filled up the scratches. It will help fill and smooth scarred engine bearings too.
Be careful, and don't use too much. It can clog an oil filter and cause the bypass valve to open. I put 2 cans in an extremely worn Ford HD330, and the oil filter stopped up a little. I just changed the oil filter when the pressure dropped some, and all was fine.
My son had his oil filter come apart on his 92 Ranger 4 cyl. He ran it until it quit. I took a crowbar and broke the engine free, put in new oil and filter, added a can of restore, and cranked it up. He ran it for a year and a half, appx. 25k miles, before we put a crank kit in it. He stopped putting restore in it on the last two oil changes, or I believe it would not have started rattling.
I am not trying to convince anyone to use restore, and I don't own stock in the company. These are just a few of the many true stories I could tell about my experience with restore. I have seen the before and after parts, so I have eyeball proof that it does fill in the scars and scratches, improve compression and fuel mileage, and cut oil consumption.
In fact, I'm going to put a can in my 4.6 T-Bird to see if it helps the cold start slap I occasionally get.
I also was building racing go kart motors around this time. The cylinders in these things get scored very easy. I would mix a small amount of restore with the oil. Every time I got protested, and had to tear down, you could see what looked like big scratches in the cylinder walls, but when you felt the cylinder, it was smooth as glass. The stuff in restore had filled up the scratches. It will help fill and smooth scarred engine bearings too.
Be careful, and don't use too much. It can clog an oil filter and cause the bypass valve to open. I put 2 cans in an extremely worn Ford HD330, and the oil filter stopped up a little. I just changed the oil filter when the pressure dropped some, and all was fine.
My son had his oil filter come apart on his 92 Ranger 4 cyl. He ran it until it quit. I took a crowbar and broke the engine free, put in new oil and filter, added a can of restore, and cranked it up. He ran it for a year and a half, appx. 25k miles, before we put a crank kit in it. He stopped putting restore in it on the last two oil changes, or I believe it would not have started rattling.
I am not trying to convince anyone to use restore, and I don't own stock in the company. These are just a few of the many true stories I could tell about my experience with restore. I have seen the before and after parts, so I have eyeball proof that it does fill in the scars and scratches, improve compression and fuel mileage, and cut oil consumption.
In fact, I'm going to put a can in my 4.6 T-Bird to see if it helps the cold start slap I occasionally get.
Last edited by yardbird; Mar 7, 2005 at 11:04 PM.
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