The market has plenty of offerings to the general public when it comes to oils and additives for our favorite set of wheels.

My personal favorite is from Lucas Oil. the Lucas Oil Stabilizer was originally marketed years ago under the "Morey's" brand name. Forrest Lucas was an over-the-road trucker and high performance car enthusiast who recognized the need for premium products in these areas. Forrest Lucas was instrumental in the development of the Morey's Heavy Duty Oil Stabilizer and in 1989 formed the Lucas Oil Company to market his products. I have had enough faith in the use of his products that I formed a company, Newark Distributing, www.newarkdistributing.com, with my cattle ranch partner to market these products myself.

As far as the technical aspects go, I am not a mechanic or a technician. I am a pleased consumer who wholly believes in the Lucas Products. I have the direct phone line to the head Lucas chemist to provide this type of information to any who desire this. I will provide the links to the Lucas Stabilizer below to help those that want more info.

http://www.lucasoil.com/images/medialibrary/hd_oil_stabilizer.pdf

http://www.lucasoil.com/images/medialibrary/product_msds-8.pdf

http://www.lucasoil.com/

A final thought not pertaining to this forum is that in 2008 the 2007 Super Bowl Champions, the Indianapolis Colts, will start play in the Lucas Oil Stadium. They are a "Well oiled machine in their own right."

Enjoy...

tbas ,

You seem sincere and I'll leave it at that . I don't have time to discuss photos concerning same removed from a site and more , to include posting my own photos of bearings and jpg's of analysis or desire to discuss even the analysis's themselve's .

Take care , i'm sure you can be of assistance to others here .

data accumulated at oil and additivesand click on the currently open articles. More will be available after the November 2007 Avanti magazine has sold out.

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Originally posted by TallPaul:
I vote Valvoline Synpower Oil Treatment (15 oz platinum color bottle) one of the best. I had a new oil analysis done on it this March (Butler Catapillar Lab, Bismark ND). Anything less than 10 ppm is ignored:

Elemental Analysis (ppm)
Alum: 34
Sodium: 23
Moly: 2324
Boron: 1046
Calcium: 1050
Magnesium: 968
Phosphorus: 1792
Zinc: 1740

Viscosity cSt @ 100C: 74.6.0

Note the viscosity. This will boost the viscosity of your oil. Some use only an ounce per quart of oil, but the instructions are the whole bottle in one crankcase of oil. One user has consistently found lower iron in used oil analysis with this add at 1 oz per qt.

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Originally posted by TallPaul:
Not sure the SX-UP is going to give you ALL the attributes of an HDEO, but may come close. If the oil you plan to use already meets the minimum requirement for light duty diesel, then I think you would be fine.

I want to throw out another additive, that looks very good. It's Powerservice Diesel Lube Oil Extender. A recent new oil analysis showed
Calcium: 6281 ppm
Magnesium:736 ppm
Phosphorus: 3548 ppm
Zinc: 3357 ppm

Best of all, it only has a viscosity of 20 cSt at 100C, so it won't appreciably thicken your oil. And the other good part, only $19 for a 3 quart jug at Walmart.

I think they stopped making that stuff, I found a quart on th clearance rack at a local tractor supply place. I tried to research it on their site, but couldnt find it.

How about XADO. Found this link http://www.xado.co.uk seems to be rated by customers, though not technically described as an additive.

Many consider anything you pour into your crankcase, other than oil, an additive. The makers of these products think in terms of additives (suppliments) or treatments. With an additive you need to continue to use the product in order to retain the benefit. With treatments the benefits are longer lasting, although they too may need to be suplimented from time to time.

Ive used lucas pure synthetic additive for years. That's the only product that they make that I do use. Its the only one that wont degrade the delvac one 5-40 that i use in my trucks. The thickeners are band aids that can make pressure problems worse,and mask the real problem depending on the cause. I have found some interesting stuff that i can hardly wait to get hold of when my budget will allow. http://www.apnano.com/
The testing that has been done to date in gear applications is impressive. The only engine additive using this substance is available in Israel.

Aftermarket additives are essential because all of those PhD's & MSE's formulating engine oils in multimillion dollar laboratories equipped with a vast array of bench, stationary and fleet testing options don't have the first clue what to put into a engine oil. After all, these guys have dedicated years to the study and practice of lube formulations and as such are absolutely incompetent. They obviously need some guy in a garage to determine what they've left out.

Or maybe not.

Early on in my career, the notion of "balanced formulation" was beaten through my thick skull. Lube additives are generally like drugs - they have beneficial primary effects and negative side effects. Some additives, like antioxidants and demulsifiers, can actually have the reverse effect at excessively high treat rates.

When you start dumping in aftermarket additives, particuarly when they have such nebulous descriptions as "stabilizer", do you know what function you are boosting and what other functions may be impaired? (Just what are we stabilizing here, oxidation, viscosity, deposit-forming tendencies? It matters. More importantly, what are we harming?)

Did you spend extra for a GF-4 or 5 oil? Well, the extra phosphorus in most of those additives is going to bump you oil out of that category. That means you'll be replacing you cataclysmic perverter sooner than you'd like.

Maybe if there were a legitimate need for that extra stuff, there would be an oil on the market that already has it. Such an oil would also have been pulled though the "balanced formulation" knothole, ensuring that none of the "solutions" brought along problems of a greater magnitude.

Well said Lamont

Bravo to Lamont.