I was hunting around this site or the many other Fiero sites one night, and came across someone who did thier own tests with Lucas oil additive. It was found that Lucas is great for startup, but after warm-up it foams and otherwise sucks. Since I was surfing for a few hours, I have NO idea where to find it again. I would like to find it because I need to issue out a good bowl of "shut-the-f***-up" to someone who swears by the stuff. Please help me in my personal vendetta....
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06:12 PM
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Falcon4 Member
Posts: 1189 From: Fresno, CA, USA Registered: Oct 2006
I wonder what the additive in my oil's doing... it's that TX7 stuff. Haven't noticed it doing anything bad, but then again I don't know how to look for any problems either. I guess I won't be adding anything new, that's for sure!
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frankenfiero1 Member
Posts: 441 From: maryville TN USA Registered: Oct 2006
Well the thing about the Lucas is that it creates those air bubbles, which cavitates the bearings. Everyone thinks they can get snake oil with no drawbacks. I always tell my customers not to fall for any of these "Wonder-oils", just change it regularly (3K). Synthetic DOES help, but very pricey for what little help it gives. Then people think because they are using synthetic that they can go longer between oil changes. What they don't realize is that the engine is still putting the same amount of particulate matter through the engine (i.e. through the breather tube, carbon blow-by, wear particles, etc), and it is just suspended in the oil acting as sandpaper. The filter can only catch so much and is only rated for so many microns. Also stay away from high parrafin based oils. I have had to chunk the crud out of many engines and suck it out with a shop-vac (especially Quaker State users). Rant-off....
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frankenfiero1 Member
Posts: 441 From: maryville TN USA Registered: Oct 2006
Well the thing about the Lucas is that it creates those air bubbles, which cavitates the bearings. Everyone thinks they can get snake oil with no drawbacks. I always tell my customers not to fall for any of these "Wonder-oils", just change it regularly (3K). Synthetic DOES help, but very pricey for what little help it gives. Then people think because they are using synthetic that they can go longer between oil changes. What they don't realize is that the engine is still putting the same amount of particulate matter through the engine (i.e. through the breather tube, carbon blow-by, wear particles, etc), and it is just suspended in the oil acting as sandpaper. The filter can only catch so much and is only rated for so many microns. Also stay away from high parrafin based oils. I have had to chunk the crud out of many engines and suck it out with a shop-vac (especially Quaker State users). Rant-off....
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fierosound Member
Posts: 15253 From: Calgary, Canada Registered: Nov 1999
Well the thing about the Lucas is that it creates those air bubbles, which cavitates the bearings. Everyone thinks they can get snake oil with no drawbacks. I always tell my customers not to fall for any of these "Wonder-oils", just change it regularly (3K). Synthetic DOES help, but very pricey for what little help it gives. Then people think because they are using synthetic that they can go longer between oil changes. What they don't realize is that the engine is still putting the same amount of particulate matter through the engine (i.e. through the breather tube, carbon blow-by, wear particles, etc), and it is just suspended in the oil acting as sandpaper. The filter can only catch so much and is only rated for so many microns. Also stay away from high parrafin based oils. I have had to chunk the crud out of many engines and suck it out with a shop-vac (especially Quaker State users). Rant-off....
You mean like this? Not sure what oil they used, but this was supposedly a low mileage engine.
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bigals Member
Posts: 149 From: high point, nc, usa Registered: May 2006
Oil is a not all the same....Syn is great for new motors and if you always use it ..it is the only way to go...however on old engines putting syn will not always work..tried it once and it sucked oil by the rings like crazy...there are only two basic types of oil....Parafane base oils like Quaker State, Pennsoil, and Castoil...Each of these are drilled northern areas...The rest Exxon, Texaco,Shell and most house brands are Texas crude base and acid base....All oils breakdown in time and do different things when they get old...My dad had a old vw bug that used oil and all he ever did was add to it...One day he wanted me to rebuild it and the pistons skirts were gone and the crank was pitted...acid build up...Many horror stories are based on quaker state and wax buildup ...They build oil by combining the two yep Havoline has parafane in it has to to meet SE requirements and QS has the texas base as well the difference is how much of each has...I have used QS in everything and have not ever had any wax build up in any of my engines...but they have always had the oil changed at 3000 everytime...
