From my personal view, we have uncovered something because we were lucky enough (ha) to have a control group of trucks that had hemi tick, to actually see what one lubricant formula can do against the field, and I blown away with the results. Minimizing the results because of my or the groups fallibility or poking holes is certainly a valid thing to do. I feel many guys have taking an agenda too far, but then again maybe some of us have went a little far as well, certainly I would be the most culpable. It is human nature if you figure something out and it helped you, that you would want to help the next guy. A better man would have walked on egg shells when he shoulda, but I'm old and grumpy and to be honest it aint my style. I'm sure if we could have the last 5 years back we would have done things different. But it is hard to first find twenty guys to try something, and have them to bother to do it rigidly when most of them could give two ***** about oil. The fact that most of them have moved on from any discussion just reveals that this was a small event in their general lives. Cool my tick is fixed, now back to work and back to raising my kids and playing ball or whatever, and I would argue that is how it should be. Or the other few, damn I got suckered into a 80 dollar oil change and my stuff is still broke.
I'm proud of what we did, I'm proud of the extensive testing and reporting some guys did, and I'm glad for every person who tried anything. It certainly wont make any science journal, but it is there for the world to see, maybe someone will read what we've done and do a better more scientific method. One would hope manufacturers would address weakness at a production level, but clearly that does not happen at our pace, and consumers are left to make the best of it. The fact so many guys complain in the forum of tick, seemingly a weekly event, there is definitely is something that has a decent success rate if nothing else you can say about the PAO-Ester high moly based formula. It would be to each individual person to decide whether or not this formula would be worthwhile in a smooth running hemi. I would think you have to be crazy not to try it in a ticking hemi with all of the information in this forum, but that is also a matter of choice and there is no guarantees. My work comes in spurts, I will be busy every spare moment til winter, I will try and be available for pm's if some guys have some q's, but might not be that day.
Hopefully all points of view can have respect, but if you want me to respond with respect, don't have an opinion what we have done has a lack of importance for the guys who fixed their stuff. It is rather funny to hear guys who don't have hemi tick minimize what that is like for the guys who have it. And as it turns out it may be as simple as an oil change to fix. What is often viewed as a loss of objectivity because these guys get stuck on one brand, in reality is a loss of objectivity from the person who for whatever reason is standing against the results and making it personal. Like somehow so many guys are happy with results is an attack on them, and this is not an attack on one person, seams like we have seen it over and over. Hopefully we get a better understanding of both the success rates and maybe why we are getting them, or maybe even that the reported success rates were an anomaly. Whatever, I take the results as they come. Keep on testing and talking, BBB out til winter.
