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but JD the problem is you have no personal experience with the product in question.(unless you have and are not giving us more details) More than likely You've have had experience with off the shelf stuff which is 9 times out of 10 garbage. I can tell you any pictures you find on ARXs site, you can prolly find the owners of those cars on BITOG, and will gladly tell you their results. It's not some miracle thing, but it does work, and it's not a snake oil.
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Buffman, I fer one will be hanging on to what you find from your UAO's. Particullarly from the dump after cleaning, rinse, and first change afterwards. To bad you dont have a UAO on the dump from before the cleaning phase. Those UAO's should tell a tale that'll clear up a lot.
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Slick 50 works, it's slick out it works 12 bucks from my wallet ha ha. I did use it for a while, then switched from havoline to mobil 1 and didn't feel I needed it anymore. Looking back, I realize I didn't need it period. Sorta off the subject, but I saw on the news this morning, where auto techs and factory reps are saying that people are wasteing money and oil by changing it to often. Some people change thier oil every 3 months, where as they could cut back to once a year. The experts say with new engines and high grade oils, there's no way you need a 3,000 mile oil changes anymore unless extreme useage. They say you wouldn't change good brake bads before you need them, so why change oil before you need to. Your throwing away good oil. I have done 5,000 mile oil changes for years and with mobil 1, I could even go longer, I just can't break the habit. Even the manuals say 5,000 miles on all 3 of my rigs. I guess they don't want people wasting oil when it's in such short supply.
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of course extended OCIs are a good way to keep using perfectly good oil. I ran the gf's cavalier to a 6150 OCI on Mobil Clean 5000 (10w30, it's non synthetic), and Blackstone commented on the UOA, that the wear metals shown in the report are similiar to oils with 4000 miles on it. They said go to 7,000 miles next time and report back.
fflintstone, yeah such a shame I didn't take a sample of the first 3000 oil change. Only thing I recall was doing a compression check and averaging 150 on the driver's side cylinders, and 160 on pass side. Also kind of hard to believe that I'll be draining $6.19 a quart castrol syntec (GRP III oil) out of it after the rinse phase is done in another 800 miles. Luckily I got it on sale for $4.19. I needed to buy 4 more quarts to clean out the local AZ's German Castrol (had to buy 5 quarts and filter for deal), so the ranger got some castrol. After this prolly use up the Valvoline in the cabinet I got for it.
fflintstone, yeah such a shame I didn't take a sample of the first 3000 oil change. Only thing I recall was doing a compression check and averaging 150 on the driver's side cylinders, and 160 on pass side. Also kind of hard to believe that I'll be draining $6.19 a quart castrol syntec (GRP III oil) out of it after the rinse phase is done in another 800 miles. Luckily I got it on sale for $4.19. I needed to buy 4 more quarts to clean out the local AZ's German Castrol (had to buy 5 quarts and filter for deal), so the ranger got some castrol. After this prolly use up the Valvoline in the cabinet I got for it.
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750 miles into the cleaning phase I filled up and calculated the fuel economy. 18.5 mpg with no change in fuel brand or driving habits/route! My average mileage is around 16 mpg. Just for kicks, I bled out a quart of oil for inspection and its coal black. I can't wait to see what it looks like after the second half of the cleaning phase is over!
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