Originally Posted By: c3po
Originally Posted By: Paleomonster
I have done, as may guess, taken cars with gunked up engines and cleaned them up. It takes work and most people want an instant solution, something a bit risky in this kind of work. I used solvents and MMO until I found ARX. I gotta tell 'ya that ARX is the way to go if you have a bit of an investment in that car.
Here is one major thing that makes ARX my choice. It's not having to guess how much solvent to use and putting your hand on the filter to see if it still gets warm and wondering what other places that solvent is going or where it settles after a shut down and wondering if it can lubricate that lifter or cam face until the oil shows up because your engine cleaning solution is not exactly engine oil. No, what I like about ARX is that you can completely screw up the dose, leave it in too long, forget about it, lose access to the car for a long period of time while the driver does not come back, and you WILL NOT DAMAGE THE
ENGINE.
Here is why I make this claim. And please do not duplicate what I did. Idiot's do not need company. I put a bottle in my neighbor's wife's car. Their mechanic put a bottle in and the Husband put a bottle in. We all independently loaded this car with ARX. We purchased the car to fix it up and the Wife got the car to drive around. Well, she moved back to her Mother's house a thousand miles away to take care of her Father with cancer. She was there for 10 months and put almost a 500/700 miles a month running errands and going to the Doctor and stuff like that. Before she returned she went to a quick-lube, did an oil change and the car arrived back home to go through a few more oil changes. I think ARX did a great job and did not trash the motor along the way. This happened 3 years ago and she kept the car. It's still doing fine.
We can all argue until we are blue in the face about exactly how much gunk a product will pull out but the argument ends when you talk about protecting your expensive engine. ARX can go into those tiny places very gently, and do its job, and a very good one at that. I have seen nothing that cleans rings and ring groves, lifters and internal timing chains. Sometimes cleaning out an engine and recovering a car to sell is like grand theft auto.
Paleomonster, I enjoyed reading your post, it sounded like someone I know on here who used to post ALL of the time about auto-rx.
So, who am I thinking about at this moment, any guesses.
Put another shrimp on the barby???