ok- well.. i'm not totally freakin out.. but... as many of you may already know.. I'm trying rid myself of a tick, and of oil burning on my old isuzu rodeo.. (95, 3.2L, V6)...
The ticking- is theoretically caused by the lack of flow to certain followers on the valvetrane.. thus- the reason the manufacture recomends synthetic oil in a 0w30 weight.. to help increase flow and clean it out.
My previous oil change... was on GC... and throughout the 3500 miles that I ran it, it was the quietest it has been in 20,000 miles... not to mention, the morning startups were really smooth in comparison, with much less "very" loud ticking comon on other oils during inicial startup. Also noted much smoother idle... like seriously smoother idle... (I have a IAC problem, so my idle sometimes lobs up and down- and on dino oil, when it lobbed down... the vehicle "vibrates" a bit.. where on the GC, it stayed smooth even when the engine was ran below idle speed and lobbed idle.., so basically... synthetic GC has proven itself to me.. i'm convinced that synthetic is better than dino just from these observations)....
anyhow... back on topic... I started the ARX treatment.. and in order to maximize the potencial of the ARX, I started with a fresh batch of plain jane 5w30 dino oil from supertech, and a pure-one filter..... and plan to drain and refill again with supertech for the rinse phase after 1500 miles...
i'm only 100 miles into the arx cleaning phase- and the tick, is so loud... louder than ever... On the GC- the tick was only faintly noticable at idle with the fans off and the radio off... Now I can hear it even while cruising at 55mph with the heater on...
On the bright side-- I think the ring packs may already be cleaning up- (many people notice this early on in the treatment, and I think I am also).. I pulled out into traffic today and layed into it.. and actually started spinning a tire on dry pavement... something this thing has never come close to doing with the new oversized tires- when i grabbed traction again it launched to life like I never thought this thing capable.
While the new, excessive ticking... is bothersom... I have a theory as to why it might be happening.. and I have a lot of hope remaining.. that the ARX will be the best in the long run...
Try to follow me on this idea...
using a hypothetical situation... an oil pump, and a large galley, feeding off into a multitude of smaller galleys... some of the smaller galleys are plugged a little bit, some are plugged a lot... The oil flow is parcially restricted on the parcially plugged galleys, which helps keep oil pressure up high enough in the whole galley system to push oil through the heavily plugged galleys... Then.. you introduce a cleaning agent.. the cleaning agent, (like ARX).. quickly begins to act on cleaning the galleys that flow better (the ones that are less plugged)... It cleans the less plugged galleys faster because they had more flow to clean with in the first place... the inicial cleaning.. reduces the overall pressure throughout the galley system, resulting in even less pressure available to push oil through the heavily plugged up galleyways.. thus- the ones that were worst off to begin with, become oven more worse off, because flow is even lower.... but.. if the cleaning agent continues to clean well, eventually, it should start to clean out those heavily plugged up galleyways...
That's eccencially what I *think* is happening... i'm not 100% sure.... but it's a good theory. So- i'm going to keep the arx in there... and keep an eye on things, and continue to follow the instructions to a "T.".... maybe I won't see major results on the majorly plugged up sections untill the rinse phase, or untill my second treatment.
The ticking- is theoretically caused by the lack of flow to certain followers on the valvetrane.. thus- the reason the manufacture recomends synthetic oil in a 0w30 weight.. to help increase flow and clean it out.
My previous oil change... was on GC... and throughout the 3500 miles that I ran it, it was the quietest it has been in 20,000 miles... not to mention, the morning startups were really smooth in comparison, with much less "very" loud ticking comon on other oils during inicial startup. Also noted much smoother idle... like seriously smoother idle... (I have a IAC problem, so my idle sometimes lobs up and down- and on dino oil, when it lobbed down... the vehicle "vibrates" a bit.. where on the GC, it stayed smooth even when the engine was ran below idle speed and lobbed idle.., so basically... synthetic GC has proven itself to me.. i'm convinced that synthetic is better than dino just from these observations)....
anyhow... back on topic... I started the ARX treatment.. and in order to maximize the potencial of the ARX, I started with a fresh batch of plain jane 5w30 dino oil from supertech, and a pure-one filter..... and plan to drain and refill again with supertech for the rinse phase after 1500 miles...
i'm only 100 miles into the arx cleaning phase- and the tick, is so loud... louder than ever... On the GC- the tick was only faintly noticable at idle with the fans off and the radio off... Now I can hear it even while cruising at 55mph with the heater on...
On the bright side-- I think the ring packs may already be cleaning up- (many people notice this early on in the treatment, and I think I am also).. I pulled out into traffic today and layed into it.. and actually started spinning a tire on dry pavement... something this thing has never come close to doing with the new oversized tires- when i grabbed traction again it launched to life like I never thought this thing capable.
While the new, excessive ticking... is bothersom... I have a theory as to why it might be happening.. and I have a lot of hope remaining.. that the ARX will be the best in the long run...
Try to follow me on this idea...
using a hypothetical situation... an oil pump, and a large galley, feeding off into a multitude of smaller galleys... some of the smaller galleys are plugged a little bit, some are plugged a lot... The oil flow is parcially restricted on the parcially plugged galleys, which helps keep oil pressure up high enough in the whole galley system to push oil through the heavily plugged galleys... Then.. you introduce a cleaning agent.. the cleaning agent, (like ARX).. quickly begins to act on cleaning the galleys that flow better (the ones that are less plugged)... It cleans the less plugged galleys faster because they had more flow to clean with in the first place... the inicial cleaning.. reduces the overall pressure throughout the galley system, resulting in even less pressure available to push oil through the heavily plugged up galleyways.. thus- the ones that were worst off to begin with, become oven more worse off, because flow is even lower.... but.. if the cleaning agent continues to clean well, eventually, it should start to clean out those heavily plugged up galleyways...
That's eccencially what I *think* is happening... i'm not 100% sure.... but it's a good theory. So- i'm going to keep the arx in there... and keep an eye on things, and continue to follow the instructions to a "T.".... maybe I won't see major results on the majorly plugged up sections untill the rinse phase, or untill my second treatment.