Lucas Oil Treatment Yes or NO?

I was told by an Amsoil guy to never use any kind of oil additive cause oil is designed to do the lubrication just the way it is so when u start adding other junk it most times actually messes with the oil. Of course he specificly mentioned Lucas said he wudnt use that even in his lawn mower. Heard from other people Lucas is basically liquid plastic.

 

There is a thread in here with arguments both pro (I don't buy it) and con..... Lucas thickens the oil is all it does... You don't need that.. Modern oil is specifically engineered with certain additives and properties. It has everything that it needs already in it... ...run any brand 15W40 you like and pull a sample.. As long as you don;t have coolant leaking onto the oil or an air leak allowing silicone in they all pretty much do a great job at what they are engineered to do... Lucas may have been a good thing for old mechanical engines back in the day when oil was different.. It's a marketing sham waste of money anymore imo.... But to each his own...

 

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Do you know what the fiscosity of Lucas Heavy Duty oil Stabilizer is? 110 Cst @ 100 deg C.!!! By comparison 40 wt or 5/15W-40 is around 14-15 Cst @ 100 C. Even 250 wt gear oil is only >41 Cst @ 100 C. So your average viscosity running 1:10 lucas/15W-40 could be well into the 20s @ 100 C.

 

truth. When you add something to your oil, you displace other properties.

 

Times "2", what he said ^^^^^

 

Go synthetic and never look back.

Send in a oil sample once a month and don't forget to change the filter every 20k or whatever the manufacturer recommends.

 

best #### thing ever made. My father, the guy i am least to and myself all run it. we run both the oil treatment and the injector treatment. we all run 2 gallons lucas in the oil and fill the fuel filter with the injector treatment. never any problems never to much oil pressure we all average 40psi idle and 70 psi highway. my boss just had his cat in at cat to have the over head run and new injectors put in it. cat pressure tested the injectors and called him and asked when he put them in. they where the factory injectors with 1.4 million miles on them. they told him they all test perfect and did not need replaced. but he still replaced them cat in turn sold them used to another customer who was broke and he has been running them for 2 months now and is very happy with them.

You will have people that say great or sucks. that a good oil has everything. Well an old friend of mine hauls oil for advance auto parts. funny thing is he has toured the plant and talked with the workers and they also package pennsoil and a number of other top brand oils that are all from the same oil that advances cheap oil is from. if all oil was the same and had everything you need in it you would not have synthic oil or any oil additives. the choice is yours if you try to poll it you will never get yes or no