Automotive Restore Products

[fly_by]

Just dumped some of this in an engine with 152,279 miles on it.

---Engine Restore

For the record...does it work? I have heard only good things about it, but I know there must be a down-side. Sound too good to be true.

Any ideas? Anyone tried it?


{EDIT}That would be the oil treatment that I added, not the fuel product{/EDIT}

[capt. apathy]

I used it about 5 years ago in an old (early 50's) portable welding machine. It had a continental inline-4.  It seemed to really cut down on the amount of blow-by entering the crank case, it ran a lot stronger under load, and I found no bad side effects even years later (just sold it last year and it still ran great).

I have no idea how well it would work on newer cars with tighter tolerances in bearings and such, and if it could gum stuff up there or cause problems.

I don't usually have a lot of faith in 'pour it in, miracle cures', but I wasn't looking forward to finding parts (or paying for them if I did) for something this old, and it got good reviews from the auto show that was on PBS at the time. So I gave it a try. No complaints.

[Ozark]

A friend at work uses it in his high mileage vehicle and swears by it. He also stated that when he was in the US Army (20-year vet), the military used it in the engines of their older vehicles and generator equipment.

[Dingbat]

Would be nice to know what it contains.  There are certain chems that help in the short term but actually damage in the long turn.   They I believe are call Panocarbons or something like that.  I'd have to dig up the article.

[Sandman]

I used it in a 1985 Bronco that I owned until a couple of years ago. No effect as far as I could tell.

[capt. apathy]

if I remember corectly from the review of it on the PBS show.  they said it had some sort of ceramic compound that hardened with exposure to combustion.  basicly it coats the cylinder wals and then hardens as your cylinder fires, then scraped off as the piston goes up and down, hardening further with each time it fires.  basicly giving the cylinder a ceramic linning that shapes and sizes it to your rings.  haven't heard how hard it is to hone this stuff out if you decide to do a proper rebuild after using it.