Video on oil and gas additives

[MikeB]

Lake Speed, Jr. on additives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAGT5inQScE

Fans of Seafoam and other magic elixirs, get ready to be let down.

[71CHEVYSHORTBED402]

Originally Posted by MikeB

Lake Speed, Jr. on additives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAGT5inQScE

Fans of Seafoam and other magic elixirs, get ready to be let down.

Personally, all I've ever used was injector cleaner, good to know that's a good idea, but really then, I need to use it more often.

Every time I hear someone say you have to add zinc to oil I cringe. Not because it's necessarily wrong, but I decided against it, 71 402.

That's the second of two study's I've see with the message don't add to engine oil. The first praises Mobil 1 5-30 full synthetic, so that's all my Chevy gets.

Funny, I noticed my engine wasn't quite purring as remembered, after my first oil change from original Valvoline Durablend 20-50 to Mobil 1.
The engine loved that Durablend incidentally, but they make it differently now, so I moved on.

Anyway, dollars to donuts the engine anomaly was because the Mobil and remnants of DB was less than a desirable mix. I only ran the truck in that state a few miles at most, due the truck underwent a restoration. Since then the oils been changed two more times over an entire 250-300 miles (cough). The engine seems real happy to me.

[MikeB]

Originally Posted by 71CHEVYSHORTBED402

Personally, all I've ever used was injector cleaner, good to know that's a good idea...

Every time I hear someone say you have to add zinc to oil I cringe.

Same here. I've used Chevron Techron fuel system cleaner a few times. But I've always thought adding additives to motor oil that already has an additive package was not a good idea. The tests in the video showed it was worse than I thought! The only one I've ever used was Comp Cams #59 break-in lube, but lately I've used only Driven break-in oil along with their HVL assembly oil.

Just remembered that I also used STP on a few occasions on high mileage engines when I was in my teens and twenties. I forget what the video said about it.

[Steeveedee]

I see that he used various oils and various additives, but did not use every oil with every additive. I suspect that the problems aren't as big as he makes them out to be. I'm definitely not equipped to prove him wrong, but I'd take this video with a grain of salt.