Ever heard of MotorKote?

[troupp]

Anyone hear ever heard of MotorKote oil additive? They make some impressive claims about their products, and I was introduced to it from a guy I know that has 8 milk trucks. He claims a 1/2 mpg increase, 25degree drop on long hills. He said he also added it to the trans and the rears, poducing a 20d drop in trans and 15d drop in each rear. Drawback???? $100 a gallon. Anyone else seen this stuff??

 

[Exekiel69]

Never heard of it but sounds impressive hope it's true, now for $100 a gallon it better make Me lounge too.

 

[Agnem]

I'm always leary of snake oil additives. However, I'll readily conceed that many of them probably work. I'm a firm believer in well filtered, frequently changed oils. I think if you do that, fancy additives are not needed. I remember back when Arco came out with that black graphite oil. Everbody thought it was a neat idea. I worked at an Exxon at the time, and we had a guy come in who was running it on his Corvette. He went a good bit over his oil change interval, and when the mechanic removed the drain plug NOTHING CAME OUT!!! He had to take a screw driver and stick it in the hole, and then it all started to glop out. Too scary for me!

 

[93turbo_animal]

heard of it the sponsor a lot of tractor pulls around here I wouldn't call it snake oil I would say its along the same lines as cenpeco and lucas

 

[Exekiel69]

I'm always leary of snake oil additives. However, I'll readily conceed that many of them probably work. I'm a firm believer in well filtered, frequently changed oils. I think if you do that, fancy additives are not needed. I remember back when Arco came out with that black graphite oil. Everbody thought it was a neat idea. I worked at an Exxon at the time, and we had a guy come in who was running it on his Corvette. He went a good bit over his oil change interval, and when the mechanic removed the drain plug NOTHING CAME OUT!!! He had to take a screw driver and stick it in the hole, and then it all started to glop out. Too scary for me!

You mention this one before and I agree that changing the oil often is cheaper and better insurance than pouring additives in the oil.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

I still use Slick 50 on occasion. I had a 2.0L Ranger that would lose oil pressure. The motor blew "eventually" but I believe the Slick 50 helped it last a lot longer than it would have otherwise.

 

[sle2115]

I still use Slick 50 on occasion. I had a 2.0L Ranger that would lose oil pressure. The motor blew "eventually" but I believe the Slick 50 helped it last a lot longer than it would have otherwise.

I sold a ton of that stuff! Not that I pushed it, I did use it though in my 83 Celebrity for quite sometime, then went to synthetic oil. I sold it about 10 years ago with 345,000 on it and it is still running.

We also sold a bunch of Restore. A guy that was very meticulous, flew remote airplanes and his were all in a class of their own as well as building two EAA airplanes that he flew. Anyway, I state all this because the guy paid very close attention to details, and he swore by Restore in his 2.3 Ranger with tons of miles on it. He would put a can in with every oil change and said compression did increase etc. I kept it on the shelf, but never pushed it. I poured some out one time, looked like copper shavings in mud to me! Not something I would want in my oil.

I have heard of Motor Silk, Motor Honey etc., but don't think I have heard of this one. Lucas and all those were readily sold as well.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Lots of that stuff is just oil thickener that will naturally increase compression and oil pressure. Blows my mind that people will use 5w30 then put in 2 bottles of STP to try to get oil pressure back up.

 

[sle2115]

Lots of that stuff is just oil thickener that will naturally increase compression and oil pressure. Blows my mind that people will use 5w30 then put in 2 bottles of STP to try to get oil pressure back up.

I hear that!!!

We used to carry some Kendall straight 50, 60 and 70 as well. Supposedly for the Harley guys, but ultimately, we sold it to used car lots!