I met a fellow the other day and after a bit we started talking cars he had a race car project being in his shop. Turns out he's also involved in lubricant additives and such from a company called 'JB' or Justice Brothers (justicebrothers.com I think). I'd never heard of this brand of products but it appears to be a line that largely competes against BGProducst for a lack of a better comparison. I think it's marketed to repair shops and dealerships mostly.
Are there any particular JB products that folks have found to be particularly good or bad or whatever? Other comments?
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Also he had an old bearing machine demo unit that he jokingly referred to as his 'snake oil' machine. Perhaps some of you guys that have been around have seen these. It was a simple enough operation for him to fire up. It had an electric motor and it turned a bearing via a belt. The small bearing had a 'cup' underneath that he filled w/ Castrol motor oil and the bottom of hte bearing could just touch/pickup. Then there was a long bar on a pivot whose end rubbed directly on the 'bearing'. THe other end of hte bar allowed for the infamous stacking of weights. All that make sense?
Well he fired it up and he castrol oil immediately bathed the bearing and w/ 1 weight there was an audible 'whine'. The 2nd weight brought the bearing to a halt. Then he started it all again w/ a squirt of some JB product or other. This time he was able to stack all the weights on and it kept on going w/ no halt to the bearing.
Cute demo but I wondered to myself how it would have faired w/ a GL4 or GL5 w/ EP additives rather than a motor oil.
JUst for the record additional additives are NOT my cup of tea - I very much prefer plain ol' API certified oils and lubricants in general - just thought I'd share a rather interesting experience was all.
thanks,
Are there any particular JB products that folks have found to be particularly good or bad or whatever? Other comments?
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Also he had an old bearing machine demo unit that he jokingly referred to as his 'snake oil' machine. Perhaps some of you guys that have been around have seen these. It was a simple enough operation for him to fire up. It had an electric motor and it turned a bearing via a belt. The small bearing had a 'cup' underneath that he filled w/ Castrol motor oil and the bottom of hte bearing could just touch/pickup. Then there was a long bar on a pivot whose end rubbed directly on the 'bearing'. THe other end of hte bar allowed for the infamous stacking of weights. All that make sense?
Well he fired it up and he castrol oil immediately bathed the bearing and w/ 1 weight there was an audible 'whine'. The 2nd weight brought the bearing to a halt. Then he started it all again w/ a squirt of some JB product or other. This time he was able to stack all the weights on and it kept on going w/ no halt to the bearing.
Cute demo but I wondered to myself how it would have faired w/ a GL4 or GL5 w/ EP additives rather than a motor oil.
JUst for the record additional additives are NOT my cup of tea - I very much prefer plain ol' API certified oils and lubricants in general - just thought I'd share a rather interesting experience was all.
thanks,