I ran it a couple times after our old Chevy had some gaskets repaired. I had no complaints, not sure it really did anything not sure it didn't, these days I'd opt for MMO in that scenario.
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I used a quart of Rislone in my old S-10 that sat for a while before being repaired. When I started it up it had terrible knock we thought was a stuck valve. Drained a quart of oil out, put a quart of Rislone in and the knock went away after a minute or two.
Wierd timing on the post..I just saw a quart of Rislone the other day while using my coupon at Oreileys an was wondering if anyone here used it...
Wierd timing on the post..I just saw a quart of Rislone the other day while using my coupon at Oreileys an was wondering if anyone here used it...
My dad sold Rislone at his ESSO Station in the 60's & 70's when, maybe it did something! With nothing to backup my statement, I think that Rislone is a product that sells itself based on old school thinking and some limited success.
IMHO, it's the sawdust in the differential trick! It quiets things down and slows down leaks until it stops working. So, if this is what it's supposed to do then, it sometimes works(severity dependant). It works for awhile and is a last resort before tearing into the real problem.
A product for those trying to sell a vehicle and get it off their hands but, it's not advertised this way. Can you imagin the wording on the label?...
...Trick you potential customers!
IMHO, it's the sawdust in the differential trick! It quiets things down and slows down leaks until it stops working. So, if this is what it's supposed to do then, it sometimes works(severity dependant). It works for awhile and is a last resort before tearing into the real problem.
A product for those trying to sell a vehicle and get it off their hands but, it's not advertised this way. Can you imagin the wording on the label?...
...Trick you potential customers!
Originally Posted By: Char Baby
A product for those trying to sell a vehicle and get it off their hands but, it's not advertised this way. Can you imagin the wording on the label?...
...Trick you potential customers!
I think Lucas Oil Stabilizer takes that prize.
A product for those trying to sell a vehicle and get it off their hands but, it's not advertised this way. Can you imagin the wording on the label?...
...Trick you potential customers!
I think Lucas Oil Stabilizer takes that prize.
Here's a link to a modern MSDS for Rislone Engine Treatment. The listed ingredients include Group I and II oils and a dose of ZDDP. About 30% of the volume is unaccounted.
Summary of ingredients:
64742-54-7 hydrotreated heavy paraffinic > 50%
64742-46-7 hydrotreated middle < 10%
64741-88-4 solvent-refined heavy paraffinic < 10%
68649-42-3 ZincDialkyldithiophosphate < 1%
http://rislone.ca/system/pdfs/76/original/34100 SDS.pdf?1366050446
Summary of ingredients:
64742-54-7 hydrotreated heavy paraffinic > 50%
64742-46-7 hydrotreated middle < 10%
64741-88-4 solvent-refined heavy paraffinic < 10%
68649-42-3 ZincDialkyldithiophosphate < 1%
http://rislone.ca/system/pdfs/76/original/34100 SDS.pdf?1366050446
Nearly 10% solvent? It should clean anyway.
Keep in mind that all oils are solvents, but "solvent-refined" does NOT mean "solvent, refined".
Solvent-refined means that a solvent was used to remove some of the unwanted chemicals from the feed stock.
Originally Posted By: demarpaint
Originally Posted By: Char Baby
A product for those trying to sell a vehicle and get it off their hands but, it's not advertised this way. Can you imagin the wording on the label?...
...Trick you potential customers!
I think Lucas Oil Stabilizer takes that prize.
I've read/heard many folks saying the same thing!
Originally Posted By: Char Baby
A product for those trying to sell a vehicle and get it off their hands but, it's not advertised this way. Can you imagin the wording on the label?...
...Trick you potential customers!
I think Lucas Oil Stabilizer takes that prize.
I've read/heard many folks saying the same thing!
There's a thread around here with a brew-ha fight broke out between users of Rislone/MMO and AutoRX. Might have been a VOA of Rislone IIRC. I believe one of the executives from Rislone posted in it that much of it was proprietary and its main cleaning agents would not show up as physical properties on a VOA.
Rislone did quiet a lifter on my father's old Dodge. I think it has its time and place, but not in a well maintained engine, especially with so many oils claiming the ability to clean...
Rislone did quiet a lifter on my father's old Dodge. I think it has its time and place, but not in a well maintained engine, especially with so many oils claiming the ability to clean...
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I had used MMO before for fogging engines pre- BITOG so, I wasnt a complete noob. I always have like the smell. Salicillate or some such, first synthesized in the 1870s. Synthetic wintergreen is used in liniments and stuff. Analgesics for your engine. Gary Allen amused me with his antics with MMO and ATF. What it demonstrated to me is that MMO used as directed, at the very least does no harm. Because used to excess , it did no harm in the fuel system. Thus encouraged, the last 2 winters, I have merely added a pint of MMO instead of going to 10 w 40. Half of what the label says is safe usage thins the oil just enough. They haven't s'ploded yet. Come March or April, I put in a fresh fill of 20 w 50. I have seen Rislone advertised for yrs beside MMO and Bardahl. Better advertising , the cans were art works, and the Canada Mints wintergreen smell .worked for me. Why try anything else ? Then I come across you guys aiding and abetting.. Enabling each other
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I miss the Rislone concentrate--that was the cat's behind!!
Originally Posted By: Donald
if you want your oil to perform better, buy better oil, not additives.
Additives can also interfere with the oils own additives.
^^^This. Assuming people are putting the additives in to correct some imagined issue.
If someone has a REAL issue, then SOME additives have their place.
if you want your oil to perform better, buy better oil, not additives.
Additives can also interfere with the oils own additives.
^^^This. Assuming people are putting the additives in to correct some imagined issue.
If someone has a REAL issue, then SOME additives have their place.
Hello. Here's my story with Rislone Engine Treatment. I bought a 1979 Toyota Corona with 180,000 km on it. It ate the oil as soon as it was dirty. About 5000 km. Literally ate it. I put in a concentrated bottle with every oil change. In 10,000 km it quit eating the oil when it past the 5000 km mark. I have run it up to 8,000 km between oil changes and it doesn't use a drop of oil. It was stuck oil rings. It's parked now the body is falling off of it. It's at 300,000 km. Work beater.
Second work beater. 1997 Toyota Corolla. Famous for sticking oil rings that require engine dismantling to repair. I bought it with 400,000 km on it. It smoked all the time. Two bottles of Rislone ET and two tanks of gas. About 1000 km. It no longer uses any oil.
I use the Rislone ET at every oil change and have since I was a teenager. The stuff works. It keeps your engine clean. I have taken off the valve cover on the Corona and it looks new in there.
Second work beater. 1997 Toyota Corolla. Famous for sticking oil rings that require engine dismantling to repair. I bought it with 400,000 km on it. It smoked all the time. Two bottles of Rislone ET and two tanks of gas. About 1000 km. It no longer uses any oil.
I use the Rislone ET at every oil change and have since I was a teenager. The stuff works. It keeps your engine clean. I have taken off the valve cover on the Corona and it looks new in there.
I can believe rislone works on coked up rings and has some anti-wear so it doesn't completely deplete or dilute the additive pack of the existing oil.
I've used it before as a run 1000 miles,rince,repeat type deal in our neglected work vans and no harm has come.
I don't use it all the time though. Just when we acquired them to do an initial clean cycle.
It's cheap and doesn't seem to do any harm. Oil blackened very fast when using it.
I've used it before as a run 1000 miles,rince,repeat type deal in our neglected work vans and no harm has come.
I don't use it all the time though. Just when we acquired them to do an initial clean cycle.
It's cheap and doesn't seem to do any harm. Oil blackened very fast when using it.
Wait, didn't you just post today about Auto-Rx?
400,000 KM and went from a "smoked all the time" to "uses no oil" with only two bottles?
No, guess that was someone else. Never mind....
Originally Posted By: Stube
Hello. Here's my story with Rislone Engine Treatment. I bought a 1979 Toyota Corona with 180,000 km on it. It ate the oil as soon as it was dirty. About 5000 km. Literally ate it. I put in a concentrated bottle with every oil change. In 10,000 km it quit eating the oil when it past the 5000 km mark. I have run it up to 8,000 km between oil changes and it doesn't use a drop of oil. It was stuck oil rings. It's parked now the body is falling off of it. It's at 300,000 km. Work beater.
Second work beater. 1997 Toyota Corolla. Famous for sticking oil rings that require engine dismantling to repair. I bought it with 400,000 km on it. It smoked all the time. Two bottles of Rislone ET and two tanks of gas. About 1000 km. It no longer uses any oil.
I use the Rislone ET at every oil change and have since I was a teenager. The stuff works. It keeps your engine clean. I have taken off the valve cover on the Corona and it looks new in there.
400,000 KM and went from a "smoked all the time" to "uses no oil" with only two bottles?
No, guess that was someone else. Never mind....
Originally Posted By: Stube
Hello. Here's my story with Rislone Engine Treatment. I bought a 1979 Toyota Corona with 180,000 km on it. It ate the oil as soon as it was dirty. About 5000 km. Literally ate it. I put in a concentrated bottle with every oil change. In 10,000 km it quit eating the oil when it past the 5000 km mark. I have run it up to 8,000 km between oil changes and it doesn't use a drop of oil. It was stuck oil rings. It's parked now the body is falling off of it. It's at 300,000 km. Work beater.
Second work beater. 1997 Toyota Corolla. Famous for sticking oil rings that require engine dismantling to repair. I bought it with 400,000 km on it. It smoked all the time. Two bottles of Rislone ET and two tanks of gas. About 1000 km. It no longer uses any oil.
I use the Rislone ET at every oil change and have since I was a teenager. The stuff works. It keeps your engine clean. I have taken off the valve cover on the Corona and it looks new in there.
Originally Posted By: RF Overlord
If someone has a REAL issue, then SOME additives have their place.
+1
If someone has a REAL issue, then SOME additives have their place.
+1
Originally Posted By: demarpaint
Originally Posted By: RF Overlord
If someone has a REAL issue, then SOME additives have their place.
+1
I agree. On a new to me engine I like to take steps in prevention and like to clean the intake as well as a couple quick changes with mmo or something in the sump,just to help me feel like I'm getting a clean start then monitor oil condition in relation to miles driven.
I feel as though if the engine is an unknown it's better to know by doing a couple quick flushes.
Then monitor
Originally Posted By: RF Overlord
If someone has a REAL issue, then SOME additives have their place.
+1
I agree. On a new to me engine I like to take steps in prevention and like to clean the intake as well as a couple quick changes with mmo or something in the sump,just to help me feel like I'm getting a clean start then monitor oil condition in relation to miles driven.
I feel as though if the engine is an unknown it's better to know by doing a couple quick flushes.
Then monitor
I just did an oil change with O'Reilly 10w30 conventional and a quart of Rislone, at 150K. When I had the valve covers off on my Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.2, there was a small amount of carbon build up on one side of the head that I was able to scrape and vacuum out. The previous owner had been driving it around with a bad radiator cap, so the upper hose wasn't getting pressurized. I also replaced the PCV valve. Those factors may have had something to do with adding to the small amount of normal carbon build up engines accumulate over time.
My original plan was to use BG Quick Clean with the above house brand oil and a new filter, and to do a second rinse with another 5 quarts of fresh oil. I had second thoughts after concern over something getting dislodged during the cleaning process, although it seems there are mixed opinions about quick flushes. After starting my vehicle with the new oil and Rislone in, it was noticeably quieter as the rockers and lifters didn't nearly make as much noise. I can't attribute this to Rislone, as I replaced a cheap MicroGuard filter with a Bosch filter. It is a possibility, however. Also, my oil pressure looks to have dropped a few PSI with Rislone in. I'll update this thread with any progress.
My original plan was to use BG Quick Clean with the above house brand oil and a new filter, and to do a second rinse with another 5 quarts of fresh oil. I had second thoughts after concern over something getting dislodged during the cleaning process, although it seems there are mixed opinions about quick flushes. After starting my vehicle with the new oil and Rislone in, it was noticeably quieter as the rockers and lifters didn't nearly make as much noise. I can't attribute this to Rislone, as I replaced a cheap MicroGuard filter with a Bosch filter. It is a possibility, however. Also, my oil pressure looks to have dropped a few PSI with Rislone in. I'll update this thread with any progress.
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It's been 300 miles, and the oil is already starting to get dark and dirty, beyond what would be expected with only oil in the crankcase. The product seems to be working as intended. I'll update this thread again in the near future.
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