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What about 100LL from an airport?The cheapest I see true fuel is 28 bucks a gallon, and gas can be bought 4.29 here. So including oil, the pump gas will be 22-23 bucks a gallon cheaper.
I know it will kill an O2 sensor very quickly. "LL" is misleading. There is plenty of lead in 100LL Av fuelWhat about 100LL from an airport?
I was not advising running it in his truck. I believe Burla was talking about 2-stroke small engines, I.E. chain saws, etc.I know it will kill an O2 sensor very quickly. "LL" is misleading. There is plenty of lead in 100LL Av fuel
No, no, they don't think about that. Neither do they buy EVs to save the planet. They do it because it's the latest trendy thing to do. There are too many people, way too many, that come into money way too quickly, so they like to blow it on toys. Easy come, easy go...I really wonder if the people that buy the EV understand where their electricity comes from. There are still a lot of coal burning sites around the country that produce their electricity. Second I wonder if people have thought about the cost to replace the batteries in their 5 or 10 year old EV after they have cycled several hundred times.
Well, actually its the meta wetting ability of esters I was getting at. The ester base oil sticks to the metal surfaces. Should make a big difference for startups and also on the marginally-lubricated parts like the lifter rollers @ idle rpm. Add good EP additives to the wetting and you get a great semi-permanent lubricant film.
It's not just the clinging to the metal parts, I believe more importantly it's the cleaning ability of POE, as it's a mild solvent. I'm sure @HEMIMANN can chime in on this.Fuel for hemimann's theory that it is the esters in redline that stop the tick instead of the moly. Lubrizol has a line of sulfurized polymeric esters, so just like when you add sulfur to a moly atom you get an EP additive, when you add sulfur to an ester you also get an EP (Extreme Pressure) additive. So if this is the case, and redline uses a sulfurized ester, then we can look at other formulas known to have this in their formula. Hold on to your seat, another such oil known to contain this..... Royal Purple. Now, we know redline kills ticks, what we don't know is do they used sulfurized esters.
I forget his name but one member used seafoam engine flush then switched to edge 5w20 and has been tick free sinceIt's not just the clinging to the metal parts, I believe more importantly it's the cleaning ability of POE, as it's a mild solvent. I'm sure @HEMIMANN can chime in on this.
One theory I'd like to test if someone is willing to do it is to flush a Hemi with the tick with Liqui Moly Pro-Line Engine Flush, then do another oil change to get out the rest of the stuff (run the engine with fresh oil for 30 minutes), and then run a good Euro oil, preferably Mobil 1 FS 0W-40. If that works then there might be some credence to my theory that one of the things that Red Line does is clean the lifters and keep them clean. I like Mobil 1 FS 0W-40 because it bleeds down the slowest, even slower than Red Line. I am very impressed with how well Liqui Moly Pro-Line Engine Flush cleans, though it helps to do a second oil change after a flush to have a spotless engine.
What viscosity Castrol EDGE are you running, and what kind of MPG are you getting?I run seafoam through my Hemi about every 15k miles. I run 60 mph for 100 miles and then I dump it and put new Castrol edge and puralator boss filter. I am also running lube guard. Thats been my solution. I was one of the early hemi tick survivors, this was back before all of the new knowledge was really out there.