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Glen:
Robbie A (or anybody),
What happens if you put too much moly in the oil? I've noticed some oils have several hundred ppm right out of the bottle, some none, lots have anywhere between 7 and 60 or so.
I've noticed reports here that adding moly has reduced wear metals in UOAs by 25% - 50%; pretty dramatic.
What could go wrong if, say, you boosted every oil for every car to 500ppm?
- Glenn
Interesting question.
They are all blended specific to the MOLY.
Other things come into play, but the oil that has just a little, has it factored in with the rest of the add package. The one with the High Dosage, is blended for that ratio... all the adds need to be in balance.
I do not know how to do it, ie balance... I only know from millions of miles with it and without it using may adds and many products in combo, that the moly can and will affect the whole oil and the "balance" is not easy to arrive at.
You can try it. I have. Do an UOA and use that to compare to your baseline. Then Add acordingly.
Best to buy one already blended for you.
But not a requirement.
Just the best or easiest way to get a balanced oil.
Some oils have brother oils (with no moly) that are close to the oil with the moly and very little tweaking is done to the oils, as not very many oils even tweak it ie for the moly, as good as they should... most cut corners
I would, if I were you is establish a baseline for three or four samples.
Then, buy your additive, and start with the whole bottle, and see if the numbers improved. Id they are way outa wack, then readjust or add other products or oils to achieve what you need.
Sometimes it works best when you do add different brands to the brew. For example; say you have Havoline xyz, and you have 2 quarts of it, and you also have mobil y, and you have 1/2 quart of it, and say you have PennZiol Z and only 1 quart, you put say 8-16 ounces of additive and you may put another brand of dino/syn to top it up....
That could be a good brew with the Moly and alone could be not as hot as one solo brand, or even a belnd of two oils.
If you know what you are doing, you can effectivly take three or five or ten other off the shelf oils and blend just about anything you want for a street ride, with or without moly. But you have to know all the workings.
The easiest is to buy a pre-blended oil.
Next, if you blend... then buy a top quality add like the one above, and first follow the directions and then you can experiment...
But You MuSt
have a Baseline, otherwise you are spitting in the wind... You need more than several, you need to be ongoing in you UOA's if you are experimenting...
One time I had great numbers with my brew in the short oci but the long drain it was worst... I'd rather be the other way... just watch the numbers, and if after you do an UOA they don't get better
then you have to try some other tactic
like less or then more or then add another additive... but do all these things one at a time... if you already tried a hundred different things, then maybe you can "get away otherwise" but it can be a risk.
You must find a good oil you want to establish a baseline, and go from there... better to stick with a little lower quality oil than switch from bottle to bottle. You need a baseline.
Some oils sacrifice cleanliness for wear
I like to sacrifice wear for cleanliness
That is a whole other discussion
