Caustic additives?
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Brullsheet.
It proves to us that there are so many ill-educated joes out there one makes you wonder what happened to the education systems for the past 50 yrs?
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A friend told me that many of these additives like ARX and others work too well. By this he meant they are very caustic and tend to eat away at gaskets and seals. Anyone else hear of this, or seen it happen in real life?
Ridiculous.
Have your friend pour straight MMO or ARX or whatever onto a gasket or seal and time how quickly it will affect a gasket or seal.
You'll grow a beard and become a grandfather before you see any affects.
Something being "caustic" infers a substance that causes corrosion by virtue of it's concentration and reactivity.
A friend told me that many of these additives like ARX and others work too well. By this he meant they are very caustic and tend to eat away at gaskets and seals. Anyone else hear of this, or seen it happen in real life?
Ridiculous.
Have your friend pour straight MMO or ARX or whatever onto a gasket or seal and time how quickly it will affect a gasket or seal.
You'll grow a beard and become a grandfather before you see any affects.
Something being "caustic" infers a substance that causes corrosion by virtue of it's concentration and reactivity.
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Yeah ..another Pennzoil causes sludge guy. There's a lot of mysteries out there. How many people knew that their oil filter selection basically boiled down to a very few gasket and thread combinations? People get lost in a fog when they don't know. The first person who sounds like they know something about it is their reliable source. They then mimic him/her in an authoritative manner.
I imagine that someone, at some point, did put real caustic in their engine in some attempt to "unclog" some passages. It works for drains, right?
I imagine that someone, at some point, did put real caustic in their engine in some attempt to "unclog" some passages. It works for drains, right?
Originally Posted By: stenerson
A friend told me that many of these additives like ARX and others work too well. By this he meant they are very caustic and tend to eat away at gaskets and seals. Anyone else hear of this, or seen it happen in real life?
That's funny. It's exactly what my dad told me the other day about MMO.
A friend told me that many of these additives like ARX and others work too well. By this he meant they are very caustic and tend to eat away at gaskets and seals. Anyone else hear of this, or seen it happen in real life?
That's funny. It's exactly what my dad told me the other day about MMO.
Somebody post up a link to the ricer kid who poured a "NOS" energy drink in his gas tank. That one is the king.
Originally Posted By: greenaccord02
Somebody post up a link to the ricer kid who poured a "NOS" energy drink in his gas tank. That one is the king.
two bottles of NOS into a gsxr
Somebody post up a link to the ricer kid who poured a "NOS" energy drink in his gas tank. That one is the king.
two bottles of NOS into a gsxr
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Originally Posted By: stenerson
A friend told me that many of these additives like ARX and others work too well. By this he meant they are very caustic and tend to eat away at gaskets and seals. Anyone else hear of this, or seen it happen in real life?
That's funny. It's exactly what my dad told me the other day about MMO.
sounds just like my chlorobenzenes to hydrochloric acid worries.
Originally Posted By: stenerson
A friend told me that many of these additives like ARX and others work too well. By this he meant they are very caustic and tend to eat away at gaskets and seals. Anyone else hear of this, or seen it happen in real life?
That's funny. It's exactly what my dad told me the other day about MMO.
sounds just like my chlorobenzenes to hydrochloric acid worries.
They used to say the same thing about synthetic oils... But it used to be true to a greater degree.
Originally Posted By: greenaccord02
They used to say the same thing about synthetic oils... But it used to be true to a greater degree.
I still hear rednecks spouting off about synthetic oils being bad for an engine, and that once you switch to syn, "You cain't never go back!".
And I see people actually listening to these "experts". I step in and pose one simple argument, they get confused, then continue on their original tirade.
They used to say the same thing about synthetic oils... But it used to be true to a greater degree.
I still hear rednecks spouting off about synthetic oils being bad for an engine, and that once you switch to syn, "You cain't never go back!".
And I see people actually listening to these "experts". I step in and pose one simple argument, they get confused, then continue on their original tirade.
Your friend is lumping everything together.
But for some products, he is on the right track. They are brutal.
There are some outstanding products out there.
But for some products, he is on the right track. They are brutal.
There are some outstanding products out there.
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