Lucas Engine Oil treament: Good? Bad?

This stuff worth the money?

Especially is car is puffing blue smoke when started on
cold morning? ( bad valve guides or bushings)

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:21:28 -0500, wrote:

>This stuff worth the money?
>
>Especially is car is puffing blue smoke when started on
>cold morning? ( bad valve guides or bushings)

if it's not using more then a quart every 1000 and not fouling plugs
but just puffing for a few seconds on start up there's not much point
in worrying about it.

My S-10 has been puffing on start up for 5 years. Plugs look perfect.
I change the oil (synthetic) once a year, which is about 10,000 miles
and don't even have to add oil at all during the year.

On Mar 11, 4:21*pm, wrote:
> This stuff worth the money?
>
> Especially is car is puffing blue smoke when started on
> cold morning? ( bad valve guides or bushings)

Try Motor Honey - it's cheaper and equally as ineffective.

Snake Oil, is what it is.

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gave yourself that?
cuhulin

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> This stuff worth the money?
>
> Especially is car is puffing blue smoke when started on
> cold morning? ( bad valve guides or bushings)
>
Quick question if I may. I've seen the commercials and the mechanic shows
with them plugging it, but what *exactly* is it supposed to do? *If* it
thins the oil, you're using too heavy a grade, if it thickens, you're
using too light a grade. What else is there that's *not* handled by the
oil itself?

On the web, History of Lucas engine oil treatment

And there is Rislone and Wynns and twenty or thirty dozen other sooper
dooper engine oil treatments that promise everything under the Sun.
cuhulin

wrote in
:

> On the web, History of Lucas engine oil treatment
>
> And there is Rislone and Wynns and twenty or thirty dozen other sooper
> dooper engine oil treatments that promise everything under the Sun.

Well, aside from thinning oil occasionally mentioned - which *isn't* a
good thing if you're using the right oil, I have heard *nothing*. Even
Their web site says little more than "better lubricants". I guess it's
like fishing lures and cosmetics - make *any* and market them and you'll
sell them.

"fred" wrote:

I've seen the commercials and the mechanic shows with
them plugging it, but what *exactly* is it supposed to do?
If it thins the oil, you're using too heavy a grade, if it
thickens, you're using too light a grade. What else is
there that's *not* handled by the oil itself?
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