Scratching my head over this snake oil.

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My friend recently purchased a 300,000 mile 2008 Tacoma with the 2GR engine. He got a deal on it because the seller said it had a blown engine, allegedly it over heated with a leaking radiator. I told my friend not to yank the engine yet. We replaced his radiator, a seized alternator, and changed the oil. We started it and it has a horrible ticking from the right bank cylinder head valve train but the engine actually runs good otherwise. We found paperwork in the glove box showing the previous owner had the ticking checked out at least once prior, approximately at 225,000 miles. The dealer said it needed an engine.
I told him to just drive it because besides the tick, the truck runs great. I wasn't about to go tearing into a 300,000 mile engine when used one are plentiful (with half that mileage).
Now comes the crazy part: He got some stuff called Bestline engine oil additive. I told him not to bother it was snake oil, but he put it in anyway. He drove about ten miles home and called me saying the noise was gone. I told him he was bull ****ting so he drove it to my house and behold this engine is now silent. I know this engine has a mechanical valve train, it's a shim and bucket design. In my mind, there is no way this additive did anything, but maybe I'm wrong?
Does anyone know anything about this stuff? I read up on it, nano particles ******** then it goes on to say there are no solids in it. Last I checked, particles were small pieces of solids. Needless to say I'm still skeptical but that **** motor is silent now.
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CarDocDude said:
My friend recently purchased a 300,000 mile 2008 Tacoma with the 2GR engine. He got a deal on it because the seller said it had a blown engine, allegedly it over heated with a leaking radiator. I told my friend not to yank the engine yet. We replaced his radiator, a seized alternator, and changed the oil. We started it and it has a horrible ticking from the right bank cylinder head valve train but the engine actually runs good otherwise. We found paperwork in the glove box showing the previous owner had the ticking checked out at least once prior, approximately at 225,000 miles. The dealer said it needed an engine.
I told him to just drive it because besides the tick, the truck runs great. I wasn't about to go tearing into a 300,000 mile engine when used one are plentiful (with half that mileage).
Now comes the crazy part: He got some stuff called Bestline engine oil additive. I told him not to bother it was snake oil, but he put it in anyway. He drove about ten miles home and called me saying the noise was gone. I told him he was bull ****ting so he drove it to my house and behold this engine is now silent. I know this engine has a mechanical valve train, it's a shim and bucket design. In my mind, there is no way this additive did anything, but maybe I'm wrong?
Does anyone know anything about this stuff? I read up on it, nano particles ******** then it goes on to say there are no solids in it. Last I checked, particles were small pieces of solids. Needless to say I'm still skeptical but that **** motor is silent now.
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how are you scratching your head - yet you call it snake oil ?
 
CarDocDude said:
My friend recently purchased a 300,000 mile 2008 Tacoma with the 2GR engine. He got a deal on it because the seller said it had a blown engine, allegedly it over heated with a leaking radiator. I told my friend not to yank the engine yet. We replaced his radiator, a seized alternator, and changed the oil. We started it and it has a horrible ticking from the right bank cylinder head valve train but the engine actually runs good otherwise. We found paperwork in the glove box showing the previous owner had the ticking checked out at least once prior, approximately at 225,000 miles. The dealer said it needed an engine.
I told him to just drive it because besides the tick, the truck runs great. I wasn't about to go tearing into a 300,000 mile engine when used one are plentiful (with half that mileage).
Now comes the crazy part: He got some stuff called Bestline engine oil additive. I told him not to bother it was snake oil, but he put it in anyway. He drove about ten miles home and called me saying the noise was gone. I told him he was bull ****ting so he drove it to my house and behold this engine is now silent. I know this engine has a mechanical valve train, it's a shim and bucket design. In my mind, there is no way this additive did anything, but maybe I'm wrong?
Does anyone know anything about this stuff? I read up on it, nano particles ******** then it goes on to say there are no solids in it. Last I checked, particles were small pieces of solids. Needless to say I'm still skeptical but that **** motor is silent now.
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Best advice: don’t buy it
 
If there were ‘grooves’ worn into the 300k mile engine, maybe the tungsten particles filled them and cushioned the metal.
‘Snake oil’ sometimes actually does what it says it does. Not always, but sometimes. Glad it worked for someone!
 
"Overheated with leaking radiator" sounds like it blew a head gasket OR got lucky and blew radiator not HG or heads.. yet this is oil product and you say it stopped a ticking.

It is very thick, or thin like water? Bottle looks like it is thin.

Maybe it really did free up a lifter.. like MMO, Seafoam, your favorite solvent would do.

It's the Nano Diamond technology, man. "Soaks into metal!"
 
Slow Car Sport Mode said:
"Overheated with leaking radiator" sounds like it blew a head gasket OR got lucky and blew radiator not HG or heads.. yet this is oil product and you say it stopped a ticking.

It is very thick, or thin like water? Bottle looks like it is thin.

Maybe it really did free up a lifter.. like MMO, Seafoam, your favorite solvent would do.
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It;s not thick, it has the viscosity of ATF........this motor has a mechanical valve train (so freeing up a lifter didn't happen) if a bucket was sticking it would have had a misfire.
 
Perhaps a stuck valve-train component came unstuck, eliminating excess clearance that was creating the noise? Whatever happened might have happened without the snake oil.
 
CR94 said:
Perhaps a stuck valve-train component came unstuck, eliminating excess clearance that was creating the noise? Whatever happened might have happened without the snake oil.
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I was thinking the same, we used PP ultra platinum 5W-30 when we changed the oil.
 
Warstud said:
Why you hate'n on Project Farm ?
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The One Arm Bandit vs www.tannasking.com and www.savantlab.com

I might have enough tools to set up my own labratory.

1. bench grinder
2. vice grips
3. micrometer
4. gunpowder scale
5. all maner of lubricants
6. Shampoo & bleach
7. an old can of GM EOS
8. drill press
9. food blender and aquarium pump for foam tests
10. freezer
11. stove
12. oven
13 hair dryer
14 Easy Bake Oven
15. thermometer
16. electric fry pan
17. electric crock pot
18. wood stove
19 ammo reloading press
20. propane torch
21. cell phone
(20 & 21 are for spectro analysis)
 
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