Lucas Oil Stabilizer...Not ZMax
Lucas Oil Stabilizer...Not ZMax
I know there is a general understanding on this board that oil additives like zmax suck.
When I went to my local auto parts store they had a little display for Lucas Oil Stabilizer. Seemed pretty convincing to me. If you haven't seen the demo yourself, it's two stacks of rotating sprockets/gears. the gears are about two inches tall and with three gears stacked top to bottom the whole assembly is about 6 inches tall. the bottom gear is 1/2" submerged in the oil. you rotate the top gear with a crank, which rotates the middle gear which rotates the bottom gear which is partially in oil. on the stack in the regular oil, the oil kinda just coats the bottom gear and some of it works it's way onto the middle gear. on the other side...same setup with three gears, but with oil stabilizer instead of regular oil, you can clearly see the oil oozing itself all over the bottom gear, working up to the middle gear and heavily coating even topmost gear. also, the rotating action on the stabilized side is much smoother than the plain oil side.
do you guys have any experience with this product?
I think they have a website at
www.lucasoil.com
I haven't been able to find any real reviews of this product on the web, just a few sites that resell their products but their claims sound exactly like what's on the lucas website.
Thanks in advance,
Kanaka
When I went to my local auto parts store they had a little display for Lucas Oil Stabilizer. Seemed pretty convincing to me. If you haven't seen the demo yourself, it's two stacks of rotating sprockets/gears. the gears are about two inches tall and with three gears stacked top to bottom the whole assembly is about 6 inches tall. the bottom gear is 1/2" submerged in the oil. you rotate the top gear with a crank, which rotates the middle gear which rotates the bottom gear which is partially in oil. on the stack in the regular oil, the oil kinda just coats the bottom gear and some of it works it's way onto the middle gear. on the other side...same setup with three gears, but with oil stabilizer instead of regular oil, you can clearly see the oil oozing itself all over the bottom gear, working up to the middle gear and heavily coating even topmost gear. also, the rotating action on the stabilized side is much smoother than the plain oil side.
do you guys have any experience with this product?
I think they have a website at
www.lucasoil.com
I haven't been able to find any real reviews of this product on the web, just a few sites that resell their products but their claims sound exactly like what's on the lucas website.
Thanks in advance,
Kanaka
Re: Lucas Oil Stabilizer...Not ZMax
Kanaka, the display is no where close to how an engine is. Think about the high temperature and how that would affect the viscocity.
I think an oil stabilizer is pointless, I would stick with regular oil changes coz when you change your oil regularly, there'll be nothing to stabilize. Plus, your engine will run cleaner and you'll worry less about buildup of goop.
My 0.02
I think an oil stabilizer is pointless, I would stick with regular oil changes coz when you change your oil regularly, there'll be nothing to stabilize. Plus, your engine will run cleaner and you'll worry less about buildup of goop.
My 0.02
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lucas products are good stuff. i never used them in my max but had other experiences with it. my last car my tranny was to the point where goin downhill the tranny wouldnt catch any gears, put lucas's in it ran fine til i got rid of the car. my friend used the engine oil stuff in his cherokee, went from soundin likea diesel to soundin like it should. so id have to say lucas's product do what there supposed to
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