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Is the airspace in quart bottles of oil filled with inert gas to prevent oxidation before it get put in your engine? I'm doubtful for quart bottles, you can crack the top and let air in/out, but for the 5 quarts jugs that I've bought, they had foil sealed tops. I'm asking because a PP rebate...

Now that gasoline has at least 10% ethanol in the USA, will everyone now have clean fuel lines, intakes and valves? I've read many places that ethanol is a terrific solvent for gasoline related deposits, so I'm asking... will this be the death knell for fuel additives? I've also read that...

They are both made by SOPUS (Shell Oil Products...), so it begs the question... is the latest incarnation of Quaker State synthetic made of the same base stock as Pennzoil Platinum? Johnny?! There seems to be a growing body of evidence than PP is the real deal, and may become the GC-type...

The only other thing of interest is insolubles, which at 0.3 for this last OCI, is virtually equal to 0.4 for the longer GC OCI. Nice drop in iron and lead levels (about a third of the GC OCI levels), some increase in copper (about 25 percent)... given that oil analyses could have a +/- 1ppm on...

Isn't it Archbishop Don "Magic" Juan, former pimp turned minister since 1985, who dresses exclusively in green and gold, who says "Green is for the money, and gold is for the honeys!"? It seems as though the elves are quite the playuhs!

I just got to thinking how inconvenient it is to have to dose my oil with Lube Control every once in awhile... Is there any dosing device which could be used to add Lube Control at a rate of 1-3 oz per 1000 miles to the motor oil? Then you could just make sure to keep your LC tank filled and...

Wooly gnomes have it that they shear and press Iberian mountain goat hair to get the lanolin esters found in Auto-RX... Wouldn't you want your car to be more like a goat? Sure you would! (no apologies to the psycho green elf cult) [ April 29, 2005, 01:46 PM: Message edited by: bigpaulo ]

http://www.toptiergas.com/deposit_control.html Looks like only a handful of gasoline retailers meet this top tier gas criteria for all grades of gas they sell. My thought is, and I don't know if this could be easily tested/quantified, can a fuel additive like Fuel Power, Techron, Redline SI-1...

Here are my UOAs... 3rd column is the ~1000 mile UOA on 3:1 Pennzoil Platinum 5W-30:M1 0W-40 (plus 4 oz Valvoline SynPower Oil Treatment, plus 4.5 oz Lube Control) I have a pretty good reason as to why my Fe and Pb are elevated... but let's see if BITOG can figure this one out. Thankfully...

It's my first time, be gentle Actually, there's no need from the looks of this UOA... the suspected coolant leak? I had my system pressure tested twice by the dealer, and no pressure loss whatsoever... then it dawned on me, how do they pressure test? By removing the radiator cap and...

Now that gasoline prices are pushing $2.10/gallon in Massachusetts, it got me to thinking about the longer term cost of using an "energy-conserving" oil as opposed to a "wear-metal-conserving" oil. I just switched from GC to a mostly Pennzoil Platinum 5W-30 (with one quart of M1 0W-40 to...

Is there any reason, other than cost, that some motor oils are not friction modified? Delvac1 comes to mind... thanks! Conversely, is there anyway for someone to "friction modify" such an oil, e.g. additize with Valvoline SynPower Oil Treatment, a slug of Redline motor oil, or Neutra 132?

I'm wondering if anyone in BITOGia has ever personally experienced or personally known of anyone who has experienced denial of warranty coverage because they ran a 0 weight oil (0W20, 0W30 or 0W40). That is all. Wish we could have a poll... I'm guessing the practical matter is that they don't...

Stopped at my local (Everett, MA) AutoZone (AZ) Friday night, and while they are carrying a good selection of M1 EP oils now, they appear to only be carrying the new style bottles of M1 0W40... I ask an employee if they would still carry M1 0W30, and he said, probably not, the oils they carry...

Stopped at my local (Everett, MA) AutoZone (AZ) Friday night, and while they are carrying a good selection of M1 EP oils now, they appear to only be carrying the new style bottles of M1 0W40... I ask an employee if they would still carry M1 0W30, and he said, probably not, the oils they carry...

Can Fuel Power be used to stablize gasoline in a lawn mower that's being stored for the winter? If so, yet another reason to buy/use Fuel Power... and another thing to add to the lubecontrol website!

I'm curious... is there any other dino oil out there which has the same or similar additive package that German Castrol does? That is all

This is a 2004 Honda Odyssey which had a recall repair done last fall (to add a jet to increase lubrication to the 2nd gear after a series of heat related failures). Took dealer 3 times to get the transmission not to leak. Now, just over 1 year since we bought the vehicle, it is making noise...

I am fully aware of all the nasty things that can happen with *too* much oil, e.g. blown seals, PCV contamination, high oil consumption, frothing and general engine apocolypse However, I've been somewhat convinced that having more oil is better (longer oil life, mostly, due to dilution of the...

Just bought 5 quarts of beloved GC, and only 2 of the bottles had batch numbers printed on the bottom of the bottles (started with M040...) Does anyone know what bottles with no batch number printed on them means? What's the likely story? New, but missed a printing? Old pre-batch numbers?