Recent content by STMech

I realize that I am not cut out for the whole BITOG analysis thing. It’s just too exhausting. And IMO, it’s maybe a waste of time. To find a good oil, yes! But almost all - or maybe ALL of the major supplier synthetic oils are good. Pick your favorite and go with it. Seems to me, choose a...

I am starting to understand what BITOG is all about. As my long deceased dad once said, it’s time to **** or get off the pot. Some folks here are suffering from decision constipation.

As stated above, what’s the benefit? If this sensor was not too expensive, and it could provide a better warning of incipient bearing failure, or sudden oil degradation, then you may have something here. Perhaps GM would want to install this in their V 8’s. Current, I believe that GM uses a...

Perhaps you had a tailwind on the way home

GM produces a good number of vehicles. Ok, I agree. GM does not produce good vehicles. Just a number of vehicles with defective engines. 6.2 V8.

Maybe we all need a helmet to protect us from precious entitled BITOG know-it-alls! Sorry, I left out “smug”

Update to this thread: I changed the Pilot's oil from Valvoline Restore and Protect 0W-20 to 5W-30 before our recent camping trip. We towed our 3000# trailer without incident from the Twin Cities to the Lake Superior North shore and back. About 600 miles overall. A couple of quick...

Don't worry, carry on. Try to do a 5k oci for the next one. Life happens, the car still runs, the Valvoline Restore and Protect is doing it's thing. All good.

But, have you ever been to Superior Wisconsin? Superior makes Duluth look good, and that’s saying something. Amsoil’s facility looks like an oversized, underused, semi-forgotten industrial park. Empty parking lots. Nothing cutting edge. But I’m sure that they are blending up good stuff.

You seem to think that viscosity change due to temperature is a new phenomenon. Modern oils with a high viscosity index are actually much more viscosity stable over temperature ranges, compared to years ago. A 4x variation in viscosity is probably not such a big deal. Modern engines are...

Just nostalgia on my part.

Like Ford V8s used to do?

Smarter than me, for sure!

Calcium borate and a molybdenum compound seem to be key to this additive technology. We can’t tell details from UOA, but these elements are all significant in many modern oils. The secrets are probably not secret to the corporate chemists of the top lube manufacturers. The summary mentions...

I’m no tribologist. However, I don’t think that what you are mentioning is a new thing. These are anti wear and anti friction additives. Valvoline Restore and Protect refers to “Liquid Shield technology”. Of course, we don’t really know what their exact formulation is. Moly? Boron? Zinc...