What Determines an Oils Cleaning Ability ?
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Here are a few existing threads, perhaps one of them may help:
Do all synthetic oils act as a cleaner?
I occasionally read about synthetic becoming darker quicker and/or causing leaks in older MPI engines because it loosens leftover deposits in engines that supposedly always used conventional. Wouldn't fresh conventional with the same additives do the same thing, or does the fancier base stocks...
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Pennzoil Platinum "Active Cleaning Agents" ?
I was about to buy my supply of Pennzoil Platinum just the other day and noticed that the oil now states that it contains active cleaning agents that removes 46% of your engine sludge in the first change. I am usually skeptical about these additives, even the cleaning ones. Can anyone give me...
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Cleaning ability: OTC premium synthetics vs HDEOs
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Oil Rec for Moderately Sludgy Engine?
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Pennzoil Platinum is noted for it's cleaning ability while QS QSUD bills itself as having superior protection . If both are SN rated oils - how different can their respective cleaning abilities be ? I would think any SN rated oil nowadays has got to have outstanding cleaning ability .
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Oil for maximum cleaning?
I’ve posted a couple of threads about my 2009 Scion with the oil burning 2az-fe engine so I won’t elaborate here and just jump straight to the question. What oil and change interval would you use if you were trying to flush out your oil control rings? I was thinking a synthetic 0w-20, but that’s...
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Valvoline MaxLife Synthetic Blend Clean engine?
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Oil Detergent
Alright.. I have a friend who doesn't change his oil till at least 10K km, and he also uses diesel oil. But he always also puts in half a litre of varsal and run no more then 200 km.. usually to the store thats @ the other side fo town and back so 200 maybe exagarating. He says he does this to...
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???? Highest Detergent Motor Oil
I suppose this is the right place for such a question.... What is the highest detergent motor oil? Would it something like Rotella? I am finalizing a refresh of a nice "barn find". The engine hasn't been running in.... maybe 6 years. I want the first fill to be an oil that will clean things...
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Mobil 1 detergents
I wanted to know if Mobil 1 could clean as good as Pennzoil Ultra or PP so I asked Mobil. I essentially asked if Mobil 1 could clean varnish like PU and PP. They responded with "Mobil1 is considered the highest detergent motor oil in the market place, it will prevent varnish, sludge and carbon...
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Who hijacked my post?
I posted here about what I call the short list of supplements that I am willing to use. And then people put replies in that wound up getting the post locked. Please do not put replies in my posts that will get my posts locked up. I don't want to argue with anybody here. I will use what I...
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Base oil, additives such as Calcium are detergents but they don't clean dirt and sludge that is already there, they just prevent the formation of new deposits.
Oils with a high ester content are well known to be good at cleaning, and actually also Group 1 conventional oils, Group 1 is at the same time the "dirtiest" type of base oil, but also it has pretty good solvency compared to something like a Group III HC oil or PAO, because they have a large amount of Aromatics compared to other bases, PAO or GTL are the "cleanest" base oils, but really don't have all that much solvent power.
Hope that makes sense
Oils with a high ester content are well known to be good at cleaning, and actually also Group 1 conventional oils, Group 1 is at the same time the "dirtiest" type of base oil, but also it has pretty good solvency compared to something like a Group III HC oil or PAO, because they have a large amount of Aromatics compared to other bases, PAO or GTL are the "cleanest" base oils, but really don't have all that much solvent power.
Hope that makes sense
You might also consider sending a PM to @High Performance Lubricants as they are very smart and capable individuals that make an oil specifically for cleaning.
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