Rislone engine treatment

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Is the only additive I ever use or ever will use.

It is a high-detergent oil that gently cleans your motor rather than a harsh cleaning like a solvent-based additive like Gunk Motor Flush (which I used on previous cars before I knew better).

I know ARX is supposed to be the good stuff, but for those who want a clean motor, running Rislone once per year for 3k really seems to work well. I once had the valve covers off my old Camaro and it had Castrol dino & Rislone once per year.

It looked like it had 30k on the motor when if fact it had 150k+!!!
 
Originally Posted By: chevrofreak
How do you know that it was the Rislone that kept it clean? Some engines are just clean running by nature.


+1 to that.
 
If you use good oil and change often, an engine will stay clean.
High way miles tend to NOT get a engine dirty as much as stop and go, short trips.
 
ARX > Rislone

IMO.

Try it and you will become one of us
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It is amazing, someone makes a post saying they like something other then Auto RX and they get bashed for it. So if changing oil every 3000 miles keeps an engine clean why doesn't everyone do that? Then no one would need Auto RX or any other product out there.
 
Originally Posted By: FastSUV
Is the only additive I ever use or ever will use.

It is a high-detergent oil that gently cleans your motor rather than a harsh cleaning like a solvent-based additive like Gunk Motor Flush (which I used on previous cars before I knew better).

I know ARX is supposed to be the good stuff, but for those who want a clean motor, running Rislone once per year for 3k really seems to work well. I once had the valve covers off my old Camaro and it had Castrol dino & Rislone once per year.

It looked like it had 30k on the motor when if fact it had 150k+!!!


Careful, this is considered blasphemous by the ARX crowd. I think the last guy that said something like that has never been seen again.....
 
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Originally Posted By: Jason8691
Originally Posted By: FastSUV
Is the only additive I ever use or ever will use.

It is a high-detergent oil that gently cleans your motor rather than a harsh cleaning like a solvent-based additive like Gunk Motor Flush (which I used on previous cars before I knew better).

I know ARX is supposed to be the good stuff, but for those who want a clean motor, running Rislone once per year for 3k really seems to work well. I once had the valve covers off my old Camaro and it had Castrol dino & Rislone once per year.

It looked like it had 30k on the motor when if fact it had 150k+!!!


Careful, this is considered blasphemous by the ARX crowd. I think the last guy that said something like that has never been seen again.....


That goes both ways, if you like ARX be prepared for the anti-ARX crowd
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To the OP, glad that you have a clean motor.
 
I just love the way people argue. For example, if a product is said to clean easily visible varnish through mere splash lubrication, the same product is also said to be unable to clean the so important ring land. Fine, I'll go along with this assumption, but not without noticing something else:

One particular product (I won't name it!), which one hand is said to not clean well varnish from visible engine parts through just splash lubrication, is on the other hand presumed to clean the ring lands very well. So we are supposed to judge not through visual verification, but simply based on the belief that the inaccessible parts have been cleaned.

Testimonials don't count, unless backed by hard data. Without such data they are mere opinion.
 
Originally Posted By: moribundman
At least it smells good. We should have a snake oil tasting contest.
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Yeah, it smells like Joe's pink hand cleaner...


Anyway, I am sure ARX is some great stuff...but I maintain my vehicles more than the AVG Joe, but I am not quite as militant as some of you on this board. I like the fact I can get a 4 dollar bottle of stuff to use once a year and it cleans the motor in a safe way. I am otherwise not big on oil additives.

Another example is to clean carbon from valves & pistons...many would probably say that BG 44k is the best...but I like to go to the parts house and get a 7 dollar can of SeaFoam. The stuff works well enough for me, and the AVG soccer Mom's Tahoe will never so much as see a cheap bottel of injector cleaner so the fact that I SeaFoam my cars is more than 99% of the population does. Same thing goes for Rislone...it might not be the "special" stuff, ut it is a decent product at a decent price that is better than not using anything.

Using paper air filters instead of K&N and using Rislone every now and then will keep your crank case & valve train nice & clean.

It surprises me to see so many attack about using something other than ARX when half the people on this board decide what oil to run based on price...If not, everyone would use Redline, or ELF racing oils LOL.
 
Originally Posted By: moribundman
I just love the way people argue. For example, if a product is said to clean easily visible varnish through mere splash lubrication, the same product is also said to be unable to clean the so important ring land. Fine, I'll go along with this assumption, but not without noticing something else:

One particular product (I won't name it!), which one hand is said to not clean well varnish from visible engine parts through just splash lubrication, is on the other hand presumed to clean the ring lands very well. So we are supposed to judge not through visual verification, but simply based on the belief that the inaccessible parts have been cleaned.

Testimonials don't count, unless backed by hard data. Without such data they are mere opinion.


That's the thing though, most people buy things based on opinions and testimonials. I know I do anyways.

Most people don't need "hard" data in order to believe something works. I wouldn't say a tuneup makes my car run better, but I should prove it somehow just to be sure.

Not trying to argue here, just saying testimonials are enough for the average Joe.
 
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I can't find it with the search function, but one of our members (MolaKule) did a VOA on Rislone, and found it was a 20-weight oil, with almost no additives in it. It is NOT a high-degtergent cleaner at all.

Sorry to bust your bubble, but Rislone had very little do do with how clean your engine was - the 3k changes w/a quality oil did it!
 
Originally Posted By: addyguy
I can't find it with the search function, but one of our members (MolaKule) did a VOA on Rislone, and found it was a 20-weight oil, with almost no additives in it. It is NOT a high-degtergent cleaner at all.

Sorry to bust your bubble, but Rislone had very little do do with how clean your engine was - the 3k changes w/a quality oil did it!


I believe you, and I knew it was 20wt already...but it has freed many-a-sticky lifter so it must have something in it?
 
Yeah, I've heard it works from many people, too. The product literature says it contains something like a 'valvetrain treatment', but I don't know what it is. Its fairly cheap, so it can't hurt anything, and if it works, all the more power to it!
 
I used a quart of Rislone 2 years ago..after a few hundred miles, my enigne and pistons started making weird noises, like the piston arms wernt being lubed, sounded like the psitons were trying to bump through the valve cover: { Did an oil change, and the noise and symptons disappeared..im VERY skeptical about using Rislone ever again...
I have used MMO once, quart in place of oil..neon loved it:)
 
Gunk 5 minute motor flush wiped out the seals in my dodge. B@d Stuff.
Originally Posted By: FastSUV
Is the only additive I ever use or ever will use.

It is a high-detergent oil that gently cleans your motor rather than a harsh cleaning like a solvent-based additive like Gunk Motor Flush (which I used on previous cars before I knew better).

I know ARX is supposed to be the good stuff, but for those who want a clean motor, running Rislone once per year for 3k really seems to work well. I once had the valve covers off my old Camaro and it had Castrol dino & Rislone once per year.

It looked like it had 30k on the motor when if fact it had 150k+!!!
 
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