Lube Control lowers insolubles?

[T-Keith]

I've been fully bitten by the BITOG bug. Before I found this site, I was happy with M1 in my good cars and Mobil DC in my beater. But now I'm sitting here with Tons of Havoline and Chevron in my garage, a bottle of AutoRX, a gallon jug of Fuel Power and today I caught myself at AutoZone digging though the Castrol for some GC.

Anyway, I'm reading up on Lube control now and I came across this mentioned several times. Lube Control will lower insolubles. I guess I'm not getting this one. I know lube Control can be used to make an oil last longer, and has a good cleaning effect, but I'm just not getting this claim. How can adding something to the oil reduce insolubles? I can understand that it might prevent them, but lowering them? Where are they going?

-T

 

[Pablo]

It supposedly dissolves "them", by them I mean carbonaceous chunk insolubles, not hunks of silica, iron, etc.....are put into solution.

I cannot say if it works or not, as this remains one of my doubts, too.

LC is claimed to be more or a less a "solvent" and will add "solvency" to oil I have been told. Before you think a solvent is bad, water is a solvent....I have zero idea what actually is in LC. Trade secret. I was thinking something like a little ethanolamine. I think it smells pretty good, in a cover-up kinda way, not like the first girlfriend.

 

[427Z06]

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Originally posted by Pablo:
I think it smells pretty good, in a cover-up kinda way, not like the first girlfriend.

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Heheheheh...my first girlfriend tast...er...smelled like strawberries.

 

[Neil Womack]

I don't know how or why any of this stuff works. Though my own analysis results the Fuel Power a long with Lube control does seem to lower soot levels.

Check out the analysis: http://theoildrop.server101.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=26;t=000078

I will have another analysis coming out in the next 30 days. In this analysis period I was very careful to add the Lube Control as recommended and use only Fuel Power as a fuel treatment.

By the way where are you guys finding these girl friends. The motor pool.

 

[GT Mike]

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Originally posted by Neil Womack:
By the way where are you guys finding these girl friends. The motor pool.

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Right now I'd be happy with one that didn't smell like plastic!

 

[T-Keith]

So, LC reduces Insolubles, by making them Soluble?

I think a better definition of Soluble would be needed. I guess I take insoluble to mean that they could not be made soluble?

-T

 

[Pablo]

T-K wrote:

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So, LC reduces Insolubles, by making them Soluble?

I think a better definition of Soluble would be needed. I guess I take insoluble to mean that they could not be made soluble?

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The butt crunchies (carbon hunks) are not soluble in normal MOTOR OIL, butt they are soluble in LC. LC dissolves them. That's the line, at least. No more defining of soluble needed.

Pardon me, but where is this motor pool anyway? Someone said there are girls in the pool...why they like swimming with motors may explain the odor issue....

 

[MolaKule]

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Right now I'd be happy with one that didn't smell like plastic!

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Where are you smelling this plastic? Whoops, don't answer that!

T-Kieth brings up an excellent question.

There are a number of definitions to insolubles and one of them are, "difficult or impossible to dissolve."

Most insolubles examples would be hard metals such as vanadium, cast iron, chrome, etc or dirt such as abrasive silica (silicon dust - sand).

Hard carbon particles are normally thought of as "insolubles."

In the case of LC and FP, both are capable of turning ONE insoluble, the hard carbon insoluble, into solution by softening it first.

So maybe we should state, "Reduces carbon insolubles," OR "Reduces Hard Carbon."

[ July 12, 2004, 04:35 PM: Message edited by: MolaKule ]