Thanks Jim. Well, I have ordered "auto-rx" and it came the other day.... I finally got around to put it in the engine this evening when I got home from work. As recommended, I installed a new MB oil filter to catch all of the debris that it is supposed to displace.... I will drive the 1000-1500 miles and see what happens. As mentioned, my 269K Mercedes, surprisingly has NO leaks, NO oil burning and NO smoking and I hope use of this does not start any of that. I do however have a "noisy" and "clacky" engine. The lifters (especially on the passenger side), will clack and chatter and I have what sounds like a knock, but only between 1500-1900 rpms on acceleration.
If it smooths out my engine, I guess I will move onto why my car is occasionally missing.... perhaps a vacuum leak, bad fuel relay, plug wires, etc.
I will not start driving the car until Monday... so the "work/cleaning" should begin then.
Since my car holds 8.5 quarts of oil, I had to pour in a entire bottle and part of another. It said 16 oz. for 8 quarts of oil and each bottle is 12 oz., so I poured only about 1/3 of the 2nd bottle in it. The rest will go into the tranny of my truck, which probably needs the tranny cleaned, since it has 103K.
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Originally Posted by JimF
I've used Slick 50, Prolong and other snake oil products like these. I ceased using these products when it was shown that they were basically useless . . . and actually could cause problems.
One of the problems to my car was an intermittant 'tick-tick' from one lifter on the right side of the engine. Unfortunately it wasn't due to a broken oil tube (Menu#19).
Started using Auto-RX (ARX) and have been using it since. It cleaned all of the 100K+ miles worth of sludge and most of the varnish from the engine although it's not marketed to clean varnish. ARX does remove sludge amazingly and I continue to use it now in the maintenance mode. My engine has never run better and is quiet.
Here's a link showing what ARX did to a '93 Nissan 240SX. The results were amazing especially the increase in compression for all cylinders. |