New Auto-RX instructions? Frank chime in please.

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Hi Frank,
I did the original 1500 mile clean and 2000 mile rinse starting about 13 months ago and ending in mid-December '06. Have done one 3000 mile MC Synth Blend OCI and am about to finish a planned 4000 mile OCI using Pennzoil Platinum Synth. It looks like I should do a further 3000 mile cleaning using a non-Synthetic. I have some Exxon Super-Flo 5w-20 that I will be using with a MC FL820s filter from the stash.
Does this sound OK and have you been able to quantify how much additional cleaning an engine can achieve with the new instructions?
The engine is a pretty clean '01 Duratech V6 with about 72,000 miles running 5w-20 oil dino or semi-synth for 3000 mile OCI's, except this last one. Thanks.
 
Ah ..sumwun whos naht fah frum heah
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(memories of my mother in PA Kmart .."where's the yahn? I beg your pardon. The YAHN. Can you spell it please? Y-A-AH-N. Oh, yarn. Yeah ..Yahn. Third aisle ..about halfway down)

Dunepuma - can you help me sort this out here
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You appear to be saying that you've done ONE Auto-Rx treatment with the 1500 clean phase and 2000 miles rinse phase. These are the old instructions. Worked great when I used it this way.

Beyond that, you've done one 3000 mile OCI with MC and an additional 4000 miles OCI with PP synth.

Are you asking if additional dino use, for 3000 miles, will continue to clean further ...or are you asking if you should use another bottle of Auto-Rx?

Are you then saying that you've not attained the level of cleanliness that you expected or is there some other anomaly that you're still seeing?

I'll apologize in advance ..I'm text challenged and I just found it hard to integrate everything that you posted.


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frum ah formah NuWinglander
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Hello Gary Allan,

Yes, you got it right. One ARX clean (1000 miles) and rinse (2000 miles) for about 3500 total miles using a dino oil (Napa 5w-20), one 3000 mile OCI with MC and just about to finish a 4000 mile PP OCI. I forgot to mention that I have done the 3 oz. ARX dose during these last two OCIs. Looking down the oil fill hole, the engine appears to be clean. Just wondering if using the Exxon Super-Flo dino as an additional rinse could provide some more cleaning as Frank stated earlier in this thread. Most of my driving was and is short bursts of 5 miles or less with maybe a highway run every other week. I'll probably do another full ARX clean and rinse, using the new instructions at about 100,000 miles.

As far as the accent, it's worse than you think. I'm originally from Boston (Brighton, Dorchester and Hyde Park). I provided untold puzzlement and glee to people west of the Charles when I drove my cahr across country to Arizona and opened my mouth to speak. Flyover country doesn't get a lot of the looonnnngg A's.

Hope you make it up here this fall. I think the foliage is going to be spectacular this year. With the dry fall and bright clear days, the first cold snap is really going to set it off.

But above all, have a wicked good day.
 
I miss the Fall in NuWingland.
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Yeah, my mother never lost her accent in 20 years here in PA. I can fall right back into it too. People who aren't from NuWingland don't understand that annunciation isn't an exact science. It's more like target practice with hand grenades. All that's really important is that you're understood for what you meant. I'd say that RhoDialand has the most abrasive accent if they're natives. bEEah ..the "EAH" part of it gets really pushed up there in presence.

I think you're fine with what you've got going. The maintenance dose should keep your internals spotless.
 
Thanks, Gary Allan.
My previous post should have read "One ARX clean (1500 miles)" instead of "One ARX clean (1000 miles)". These were the application instructions until recently. On the previous page of this thread, Frank suggests to another ARX user to do an additional 3000 mile OCI with dino, sans the maintainence dose, to catch up with the new longer interval instructions and get the full benefit of the original treatment.

So, I'm going to use the Exxon dino for 3000 miles. I have to get rid of it anyway and the Tribute ran well with it when I used it before. I have enough for 2 OCIs and might do use it all just to be certain that everything is clean. I guess I'll have to open and photograph the filter coming off in the next couple of weeks and then the next one or two used filters to compare them. Wished I had done so with the original treatment filters. Will post the pics in, oh, eight or so months.

Until then, every one have a wicked good day.
 
You're right. I forgot Frank's addendum (must need meds changed/checked) .. I even mirrored it ..senior moments without being a senior citizen yet
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My timing is too advanced
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I'm just about to dump my 2nd rinse phase Havoline dino oil (old formula) and put in PP. Should I add the maintenance dose to catch up to the new instructions into the PP? From now on, I will be using PP as i have a big stash left fom the rebates and BOGO deals. Will using PP reject the cleaning dose of suto-rx and reject the rinse phase?
 
Sorry Spartuss, but would you repeat exactly what you did, mileage oil filters etc. I would like to hear without reading the whole thread. I have done a lot of work with Auto-Rx and helped Frank write the new instructions. I am also working with a friend that is a PP user and would like to follow along with what your are doing.
 
Car: 1999 Nissan Maxima w/ 108,964.

1st Clean Phase 03.27.07 108,964 miles. Changed oil to 5W-30 Havoline dino (old formula) and filter to Advance Auto Parts filter. Added 8 ounces of Auto-Rx to oil.

1st Rinse Phase 04.27.07 110,340 miles. Changed oil to 5W-30 Havoline dino (old formula) and filter to Advance Auto Parts filter.

2nd Clean Phase 06.14.07 112,700 miles. Changed oil to 5W-30 Havoline dino (old formula) and filter to Advance Auto Parts filter. Added 8 ounces of Auto-Rx to oil.

2nd Rinse Phase 07.22.07 114,597 miles. Changed oil to 5W-30 Havoline dino (old formula) and filter to Advance Auto Parts filter.

Next oil change to Pennzoil Platinum with Purolator Premium oil filter.

Anything else?
 
You should go on Auto-Rx Maintenance Dose ( read post by Gary Allan look for owners comments on his Mercury Maurader & gas mileage mileage) Now is the time to go on program for you.
 
should I add auto-rx into Pennzoil Platinum Synthetic for the maintenance plan or wait until the next oil change?
 
Spartuss,

How much longer (mileage wise) before you change your oil? If you've changed it recently and used PP as your new oil, add three ounces of Auto-Rx and relax. What OCI do you normally run?
 
I have changed my oil to 5w-30 Pennzoil Platinum Synthetic with Purolator Premium Plus filter on 10/05/07 with 117,109 miles on the odometer.
 
I'm here. I think using Auto-Rx with PP is a good combination. Some of the GIII Amsoil oils are good too. I'll have some info on BioSyn soon, too. I'm also a long time Red Line user but I always use Delo 400 15w-40 for clean and rinse with great results. I was always concerned that RL's polar properties would fight with Auto-Rx in general terms the chemistry of the two products would get after each other.

I'm going to produce some test data but it's going to take miles. Also we are having trouble with a fire for the past couple of days.

By the way, would you like a pig?
 
We have half a dozen or so and one big show with 12 babies, all from the fires here. There is nothing cuter than a little piggy that follows you around even when you run a little. All the pigs have names now and we have not found the owner of the sow, yet. She's one big mama.

By the way have you received enough info to keep going?
 
post pics of the cuties. I may pick up a few and train them how to change my engine oil, transmission fluid, rotate tires, etc...
 
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