Oil Additive
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Oil Additive
Well, the subject pretty much sums it up. I have almost 200,000 kms (124,800 miles) on my 302. Should I be adding anything to the 5W30 (bulk) that the dealership puts in it ?????? She is still running good although I think I need to change my fuel filter. She is getting a little slugish on take offs, and it was changed a year ago last February. 
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Dean
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While SPROCKET_X and Donate54 are probably the only other members on this board that will agree with me, I too strongly recommend Slick 50. I've seen the negative reports, and heard all the stories, but my personal experience makes me swear by it. I change my oil and filter every 3,000 miles, and add a quart of Slick 50 about every 50k miles.
FWIW, that is the only additive I will ever add, too.
Take care,
-Chris
FWIW, that is the only additive I will ever add, too.
Take care,
-Chris
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Why do you guys say it works, where others say that it doesn't. What is the results that you have found ? What happened when you put it in ??? I was thinking about putting STP in with a regular oil change. My dad used it a long time ago but hasn't used it in about 10 years.
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Well I have heard of people who don't like it...why they don't like it I don't know..I don't know how it would hurt!?! But I think Donate54 had the same problem as I did with the rocker arms getting a bit loud. I decided to give it a try when I last changed my oil and now when I warm the beast up in the morning I hear a soft purr and no more knocking, it idles nice and smooth too so I know the beast likes it just as much as I do.
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Izzy, I could tell you stories from personal experience for days, but I'm a hunt-and-peck typist, and I just don't have the patience. In short, I have witnessed it quiet down engines with noisy valvetrains dozens of times, sometimes in less than a minute. I had an old block with the crank in it that was being used as a stand for a grinding wheel, for several years. The block was junk, but I just hadn't gotten rid of it, and the grinder fit on it well. After years of fine debris collecting on the engine, I got rid of it. When I pulled the crank out, to make it easier to load into the truck, I droped it because the journals were so slippery. I had used Slick 50 in that engine many, many years before (usually, the crank would be gummy, not slippery).
In an engine rebuilding class I took at the local cc in the mid 80's, we (the class) talked the instructor into letting us test regular oil vs. Slick 50 by trying to grenade two engines at the end of the semester. A quart of Slick 50 was added to one, and not the other. The engines were each run for 10 minutes, and then had the oil drained. We then started each one, and placed a cinder block on the gas pedals. They both ran without any oil in the pan. The regular oil engine seized in less than 10 minutes. The engine that had had 1 quart of Slick 50 in it (for only 10 minutes) ran for over an hour, at which point the car ran out of gas. Two years later, I returned to take a different class, and the instructor showed me the car, and said it had the same engine in it, and it had not been rebuilt, and still ran great. Two other classes were using it as a practice car for alignments and electrical problems. Of course, it now had oil in it, but you get the point.
There are other stories, but I've said enough. These are experiences I have witnessed, not read about, or heard from a friend. I used to try hard to convince people of it's worth, but some just won't believe it, so I stopped. It's their loss. It works great. I would pay $50 a quart if that's how much it still cost, like the old days. BTW, Slick 50 was the first of it's kind, and has been around forever. The local oldtimers will fill your ears with incredible stories, too. People used to come to Ventura from L.A. to buy it, because there was a shop here that sold it (for $50 a quart, the going price then), and down there it was hard to find. Since then, there have been dozens of imitators, but they're all junk. Then again, some people say that about Slick 50 (the fools).
Spend the $12 and see for yourself.
Take care,
-Chris
In an engine rebuilding class I took at the local cc in the mid 80's, we (the class) talked the instructor into letting us test regular oil vs. Slick 50 by trying to grenade two engines at the end of the semester. A quart of Slick 50 was added to one, and not the other. The engines were each run for 10 minutes, and then had the oil drained. We then started each one, and placed a cinder block on the gas pedals. They both ran without any oil in the pan. The regular oil engine seized in less than 10 minutes. The engine that had had 1 quart of Slick 50 in it (for only 10 minutes) ran for over an hour, at which point the car ran out of gas. Two years later, I returned to take a different class, and the instructor showed me the car, and said it had the same engine in it, and it had not been rebuilt, and still ran great. Two other classes were using it as a practice car for alignments and electrical problems. Of course, it now had oil in it, but you get the point.
There are other stories, but I've said enough. These are experiences I have witnessed, not read about, or heard from a friend. I used to try hard to convince people of it's worth, but some just won't believe it, so I stopped. It's their loss. It works great. I would pay $50 a quart if that's how much it still cost, like the old days. BTW, Slick 50 was the first of it's kind, and has been around forever. The local oldtimers will fill your ears with incredible stories, too. People used to come to Ventura from L.A. to buy it, because there was a shop here that sold it (for $50 a quart, the going price then), and down there it was hard to find. Since then, there have been dozens of imitators, but they're all junk. Then again, some people say that about Slick 50 (the fools).
Spend the $12 and see for yourself.
Take care,
-Chris