Lucas Oil
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Lucas Oil
Hey Guys,
I was in a local Schucks Automotive store picking up a Grant Steering Wheel Hub Adapter for my Mustang and noticed a device on a counter which was made of plexy glass and had 4 gears in it with a handle to spin on the bottom gear, and then there were 3 more gears on top of the bottom one. There were 2 sets of gears seperated by plexy. The left side had normal 10w30 motor oil in it, while the right hand side had 10w30 with 20% Lucas Oil added to it. Each gear had the same number of teeth, and had approximately a 3" diameter. It was very apparent that the Lucas was working, it made the motor oil "stick together" maybe 5 times better than the normal 10w30. Its hard to explain, but the Lucas was like (pancake) syrup while the normal 10w30 would be water.
While this would provide more protection, I believe it would also cause you to loose power because it would coat the connecting rods and the rest of the rotating mass. Since our engines don't come from the factory with windage trays, it could have a greater effect than if they did have windage trays.
Food for thought,
Mrgone
I was in a local Schucks Automotive store picking up a Grant Steering Wheel Hub Adapter for my Mustang and noticed a device on a counter which was made of plexy glass and had 4 gears in it with a handle to spin on the bottom gear, and then there were 3 more gears on top of the bottom one. There were 2 sets of gears seperated by plexy. The left side had normal 10w30 motor oil in it, while the right hand side had 10w30 with 20% Lucas Oil added to it. Each gear had the same number of teeth, and had approximately a 3" diameter. It was very apparent that the Lucas was working, it made the motor oil "stick together" maybe 5 times better than the normal 10w30. Its hard to explain, but the Lucas was like (pancake) syrup while the normal 10w30 would be water.
While this would provide more protection, I believe it would also cause you to loose power because it would coat the connecting rods and the rest of the rotating mass. Since our engines don't come from the factory with windage trays, it could have a greater effect than if they did have windage trays.
Food for thought,
Mrgone
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Stay away from it. Check this link out: http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/images/lucas/lucas.htm
I don't believe everything I see on the internet. Lucas tranny additive saved my transmission for 10,000 miles after a problem occured. Their oil additive quieted the VQ's infamous valve tap. They make excellent products.
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GimmeTorq, Thanks for the link, but I dont think his tests were preformed in a professional enviroment. In order to get true readings, he should have added lucas to both motor oils. Another thing is he is doing this with synthetics, while the setup I saw in the store used standard oil and had no airotation (sp?) in it.
Personally I would never add any additives to the Durango and even more so the Maxima. The Lucas oil seems to be good at coating the gears in the setup I saw, but with our engines, it will do more harm than good. It will just stick on the rotating mass, and become a pain in the *** for the engine to mess with.
I am however going to use it or another one, Hyper Lube, in my moms 1991 Jimmy because the motor is tired and is in need of a rebuild, however if I can use a thicker oil to help the seals, I'd love to get more time out of it.
Personally I would never add any additives to the Durango and even more so the Maxima. The Lucas oil seems to be good at coating the gears in the setup I saw, but with our engines, it will do more harm than good. It will just stick on the rotating mass, and become a pain in the *** for the engine to mess with.
I am however going to use it or another one, Hyper Lube, in my moms 1991 Jimmy because the motor is tired and is in need of a rebuild, however if I can use a thicker oil to help the seals, I'd love to get more time out of it.
Simple:
Use a good quality motor oil and change it regularly. Then you don't need stuff like this to fix what's already "broken".
Spend the extra money on something other than a garbage Fram oil filter....
Better yet, get your oil analyzed so you can make intelligent decisions on your oil selection and interval.
Use a good quality motor oil and change it regularly. Then you don't need stuff like this to fix what's already "broken".
Spend the extra money on something other than a garbage Fram oil filter....
Better yet, get your oil analyzed so you can make intelligent decisions on your oil selection and interval.
It's chrome alright...
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Bill, good advice.
I love how many different ways people find to justify a bad decision. Reading here and on that message board... "don't care what your experiment shows, I know it's good stuff" kinds of comments kill me
I love how many different ways people find to justify a bad decision. Reading here and on that message board... "don't care what your experiment shows, I know it's good stuff" kinds of comments kill me
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on our 1991 Jimmy, the only fix for it is for me to rebuild the engine, but since I would rather Install the Fidanza and Exedy in the Maxima, and port the Durango's Intake and Throttle body, I would rather bandaid the Jimmy and save it for a month or two.
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Originally posted by MrGone
GimmeTorq, Thanks for the link, but I dont think his tests were preformed in a professional enviroment. In order to get true readings, he should have added lucas to both motor oils. Another thing is he is doing this with synthetics, while the setup I saw in the store used standard oil and had no airotation (sp?) in it.
GimmeTorq, Thanks for the link, but I dont think his tests were preformed in a professional enviroment. In order to get true readings, he should have added lucas to both motor oils. Another thing is he is doing this with synthetics, while the setup I saw in the store used standard oil and had no airotation (sp?) in it.
Good luck
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Yeah, I agree with that 100%, there is no way I would add anything to my oil in the Maxima or Durango, however because the Jimmy's engine is very tired and there is alot of blowby around the rings, I would like to use a thicker oil to help lessen the ammount of blowby. It's not a fix for the problem, instead its a very weak bandaid for it. I just want some solution that could help it out for a couple hundred more miles. I'm actually not a big fan of the S10 series, and I am thinking about swapping over to a 327ci SBC Stroker.
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