Some PCMO lube advice.

[dave1251]

I have a Chevy Prizm and its engine rattles when the oil level is low. I have found that one quart more than recommended makes the engine silent and the gas mileage becomes better as well. I have to add on one quart every month or every other month. When the rattling begins I add the one quart of oil. I use ordinary cooking oil, canola oil. The best motor oils are made from vegetable oil anyway. And instead of the standard air filter I use a cut out of washable in-house washable, reusable air conditioning filter material. The better air flow increases engine power and gas mileage. Plus, I never have to replace it. Crickets and such are kept out of the engine. I must have saved hundreds of dollars by now.


This was posted on a another site. Would you follow his advice?

 

[dave1251]

If you are running Mobil One Synthetic after purchasing a new vehicle, do not change to Castro Edge. If so, I will almost bet, your engine will seize up (within 1000 miles). Being among the few who had this happen, Castro Edge is not ‘a true” synthetic oil.

In correcting this issue, I sent a response (complaint for readdress) to the Castro corporate center, no word or response knowing it is pretty much a problem. Sad part, I have to now seek a legal suit to have the motor replace and hopefully, have a warning placed on their bottles to aid the consumer.

It is true; the number one leader in synthetic oils is either Amsoil or Royal Purple

Some more advice from the same site.

 

[daman]

 

[dave1251]

Castrol Synthetic is fake. They were even sued for it, but they won because they're allowed to put whatever they want on their bottles. I put this stuff in one time and I notice the rpms started to run from 1800 to 2200 after 800 miles at 65 mph. I've tried the conventional oil and that runs at 2200 rpms at 65 mph. I might as well buy the conventional stuff since its cheaper and it runs the same as Castrol Synthetic, but I didn't have any trouble with Castrol Synthetic.

Guess someone does not like Castorl. Funny!


Ran in one of my first cars- recomended by a mechanic- wrong decission to change - no motor problems but gummed my entire engine up with sludge- under valve cover was just nasty, could never get all the burnt on oil caking off, so what dose the rest of the motor look like that we can't see- I really don't want to see......

Really does not like Castrol.

 

[d00df00d]

Sounds like a troll to me.

 

[Cause4Alarm]

i feel dumber........

 

[dave1251]

actually if you knew how an engine works, you would realize that the intake valve stems are constantly in oil, and that a very small amount of oil alway seeps past the seal. pennzoil oil has a detergent in it that gums up the engine, and leads to engine failure, its like sludge in a bottle. dont use it. ask any person (including myself) that rebuilds engines for a living, when we take apart the engine and see all the gum/wax whatever you wanna call it, we ask the customer what oil they used... guess what they say. and thats one more person that i helped realize why there engine prematurely died.

Same guy on pennzoil

 

[kcfx4]

see my signiture lol

 

[gomes512]

My favorite is still adding ATF into the crankcase to clean it up. Mercon has the most detergents, 50x more than motor oil, followed by Dexron and ATF+4.

Stopped my tick, cleaned all the crud under valve cover, increased oil pressure, increased MPG's, blah, blah, blah...

 

[dave1251]

This site is funny more on Pennzoil. I am laughing all the time because of this. Nice way to break the tenison being stuck in this butthole of a country I am in.

Pennzoil sucks so bad i could develop an oil right now that is better than it. I know a friend who used their conventional oil twice. During the second run with it he noticed something terribly wrong with the engine. He is also mechanic so he took the engine apart and was shocked to see all of the wax build up in the intake and valves and pistons. We both tell people NEVER to use Pennzoil, its not a suprise I rarely hear anything good about Pennzoil, I hear that the new Platinum is pretty bad too.

 

[poiuy223]

this confused me for a min but then i started laughing at this guy's ridiculous claims.

 

[dave1251]

Pennzoil or as it should be known pennzwax, is the worst oil for buildup in a motor and can cause enough damage over a life time that you refuse to rebuild a motor that was considered a penn motor.


Really you rather not provide for yourself and family than rebuild a engine that used pennzoil?

I do not think I will have a sludged up engine in my life but if I do I will tell the tech that I only used valvoline. No I won't do that but I think I would like to the look on his face.

 

[dave1251]

More wisdom from the same site. This is on valvoline.

Valvoline 1 Here's my daily motor oil review:

Spent Walmart Super Tech is better than this CENSORED.

 

[Astro14]

Well, given the encyclopedic knowledge of this poster, I would have to start following his advice...he has to be smarter than any of the engineers with masters degrees who designed the cars...

And "Castro" edge...hm...haven't found that one yet...but have run Castrol edge from time to time...and my poor Toyota with only 219K on it now has good compression, zero sludge...

It can only be the pyramid on my dashboard channeling the cosmic energy into the intake that has prevented the damage from running synthetics like Casrol...additionally, it has prevented me from being detected by aliens...so I haven't been abducted by them yet...

Which is nice...

 

[dave1251]

More on valvoline. Love this stuff!

Valvoline is the worst i've used ever! I had 2 honda motors blow up using this.

 

[Mark72]

Johnny?

 

[dave1251]

Don't think so. Johnny has always had nice things to say about Ashland.

 

[dave1251]

This is from a "oil company chemist" on EXXON superflow. I can't make this stuff up.

Barely meets legal requirements. Commonly felt they lowered Mobil's product line quality.

 

[dave1251]

From a guy that has only used valvoline for the last 15 years on Supertech. How would he know if he only uses valvoline.

this oil is good for only 2,000 mile intervals and that's about it.

 

[dave1251]

More on supertech after one time use.

I Put this oil in one of my cars and now the engine is bad. Buy an oil you can trust like Amsoil or Valvoline