Originally Posted By: PimTac
This thread started out as another infomercial for Redline oil as I saw it. There are some interesting points though. While moly is a proven anti-friction component, it is not the only one. I would like to see these hemi engines run on moly and after a good chunk of miles or kilometers, torn down to compare with non-moly engines. Does the moly just mask the sound? The jury may still be out on that.
I can not only speak for myself but everyone else, we sure wish we could have solved this with just about any other oil then redline, as it hurts the pocket book. After doing this for 5 years I have come to the realization we will never have the answers, only that generally speaking redline is a tick killer for whatever reason and for whatever that is worth. We have out first guy at bob's who is trying it, we will see if he actually does it and if he actually reports it. These are the types of things we are up against with our control group. I doubt it will ever be some great scientific standard, just a puzzle with a couple pieces missing. One thing is for sure, every sucker who shelled out 50k for a truck that sounds like a sewing machine within the first 10k miles, shouldn't have to live with that garbage. In a perfect world, the warranty would carry the day, but more often then not, the many says that knocking sound is perfectly normal when they know dang well it is not. Knocking sounds are never normal, if it is the lifters knocking, you have a real problem downstream. Don't take my word for it, look at the sticky on the other board. Massive cam fails with this tick garbage. This is an oil forum not a correct bad English forum or mechanics forum or whatever else people want to lower this too. But there is enough info here to help someone searching for it.