Did Lubegard Biotech kill your hemi tick??

[Matt9819]

My truck started to tick bad while warm a couple days ago. Since I am due for an oil change I bought 6 quarts of redline 5w30 (couldn't find any more in my area or in stock online) and 2 15oz bottles of lubeguard to try and stop the tick. Would I be good with using the 6 quarts of redline and 21 ounces of lubeguard? Or due I need to top off the oil with another synthetic

 

[Zoe Saldana]

My truck started to tick bad while warm a couple days ago. Since I am due for an oil change I bought 6 quarts of redline 5w30 (couldn't find any more in my area or in stock online) and 2 15oz bottles of lubeguard to try and stop the tick. Would I be good with using the 6 quarts of redline and 21 ounces of lubeguard? Or due I need to top off the oil with another synthetic

Read the Lubegard directions.

 

[Burla]

My truck started to tick bad while warm a couple days ago. Since I am due for an oil change I bought 6 quarts of redline 5w30 (couldn't find any more in my area or in stock online) and 2 15oz bottles of lubeguard to try and stop the tick. Would I be good with using the 6 quarts of redline and 21 ounces of lubeguard? Or due I need to top off the oil with another synthetic

I would not mix the two, find any 5w30 dexos and mix 1 qrt to 6 redline. We all might be doing this soon to save money but hopefully keep tick away. You can be test case. Are you sure it is lifters tick and not exhaust bolts. report over this thread, gl

 

[Matt9819]

Almost positive it’s a lifter issues bc it persists even after the truck is warm. I put a bottle of liqui moly yesterday and after ~60 miles it’s reduced the noise a little. The redline is getting delivered this weekend so I’ll take your advice and hold off on the Lubegard for now. In the meantime hopefully liqui moly does the trick. Thanks

 

[Burla]

Almost positive it’s a lifter issues bc it persists even after the truck is warm. I put a bottle of liqui moly yesterday and after ~60 miles it’s reduced the noise a little. The redline is getting delivered this weekend so I’ll take your advice and hold off on the Lubegard for now. In the meantime hopefully liqui moly does the trick. Thanks

let us know how it goes after change.

 

[Wild one]

Almost positive it’s a lifter issues bc it persists even after the truck is warm. I put a bottle of liqui moly yesterday and after ~60 miles it’s reduced the noise a little. The redline is getting delivered this weekend so I’ll take your advice and hold off on the Lubegard for now. In the meantime hopefully liqui moly does the trick. Thanks

If it is a lifter issue,you'll want to park it.If you keep on driving it, odds are you'll put enough metal through the engine,you'll need a new engine instead of just a cam and lifter job

 

[Matt9819]

If it is a lifter issue,you'll want to park it.If you keep on driving it, odds are you'll put enough metal through the engine,you'll need a new engine instead of just a cam and lifter job

I agree… since I believe I caught it early I wanted to hopefully buy myself some time to and get a second vehicle.

 

[Riccochet]

Add lubegard to my 6.4 roughly 4000 miles ago at the oil change. Can't say it did much.

Also added it to my 2012 Wrangler that had a nasty cold start chatter that lasted a second or so. I know the chatter was due to not driving it and the lifters needing to pump back up. We don't drive it often anymore. But that chatter is a lot less noisy, if that makes sense. And the engine runs a good bit quieter overall. 150k miles on it, still runs great.

 

[alex6666]

Lubeguard makes a noticeable improvement in my 2017 5.7 .....occasional morning tap pretty much all gone. FYI i believe lubeguard says it might take two treatments for max effect.

 

[Curmudgeon]

I posted this in the Synthetic Oil thread but this thread might be a better fit...

I see folks talk about adding 15oz Lubegard but they suggest adding 3oz for every quart of oil, so I'd be looking at around 21oz of Lubegard. I can order (2) 10oz bottles for my next oil change instead of the 15oz I added last time.

Any thoughts? 15oz vs 20oz?

I already have the RP filter and Red Line waiting in the garage.

 

[Mojo88]

...I see folks talk about adding 15oz Lubegard but they suggest adding 3oz for every quart of oil, so I'd be looking at around 21oz of Lubegard. I can order (2) 10oz bottles for my next oil change instead of the 15oz I added last time.
Any thoughts? 15oz vs 20oz?

Lubegard is $27 a quart on Amazon. I bought a quart not long ago. Much cheaper buying by the quart. 2 qts would get you almost exactly three oil changes............

Last oil change, I did 7 qts oil and 1/2 qt Lubegard. Next oil change, I will do 7 qts oil and 21oz Lubegard. That way I'm slightly overfull, increasing internal spash, maybe helping out cam/lifters (or maybe not, lol).

Part of me actually hopes my engine/cam/lifters/whatever grenade themselves so I have a legitimate excuse to put in a 6.4L that @Wild one showed me, haha. I do hear some intermittent ticking, so you never know......

 

[RamDiver]

I posted this in the Synthetic Oil thread but this thread might be a better fit...

I see folks talk about adding 15oz Lubegard but they suggest adding 3oz for every quart of oil, so I'd be looking at around 21oz of Lubegard. I can order (2) 10oz bottles for my next oil change instead of the 15oz I added last time.

Any thoughts? 15oz vs 20oz?

I already have the RP filter and Red Line waiting in the garage.

LubeGard is more costly up here.

I'm trying not to overthink the process and only adding 15oz during my pre-winter OCI.
Cold winter starts are about the worst engine abuse where I live, AFAIC.

My truck was new in January '22 and has just under 34K miles. I might use it differently if/when I had/have higher mileage.

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[Zoe Saldana]

I posted this in the Synthetic Oil thread but this thread might be a better fit...

I see folks talk about adding 15oz Lubegard but they suggest adding 3oz for every quart of oil, so I'd be looking at around 21oz of Lubegard. I can order (2) 10oz bottles for my next oil change instead of the 15oz I added last time.

Any thoughts? 15oz vs 20oz?

I already have the RP filter and Red Line waiting in the garage.

Amazon has QT bottles at a better price than stores.

 

[Burla]

In case some with the huricane engine wants to run lubegard, you NEED to run the di formula, it's a thing.. Dont use blue label lubegard cause of the CA content. Lake speed aka oil geek proved 250ppm CA and 1,000ppm moly = zero lspi. Of note he was selling driven oil with that formula, something to consider for guys with any di turbo.

 

[knightjp]

I would not mix the two, find any 5w30 dexos and mix 1 qrt to 6 redline. We all might be doing this soon to save money but hopefully keep tick away. You can be test case. Are you sure it is lifters tick and not exhaust bolts. report over this thread, gl

Since the last time I replaced all the lifters in my engine, I've done about 100,000kms and so far the engine is still nice and quiet. My truck is currently at 361,000 kms and I changed lifters at approx 240,000 kms. I've stuck to the routine of sticking to a good 5w30 oil and changing every 5000kms.

I think that if you're not going to replace the lifters, then you should look at Lubeguard and or using Redline route.

 

[HemiBrother]

15oz of lubegard and PUP 5w30 has my one Hemi starting and running noise free and my oil temp seems to be running degrees cooler. 15oz is all the more that particular Hemi seems to need in its oil. Took about 600 mile to notice how much smoother it ran and how start up noise disappeared. Being there’s three hemis in my drive way soon a 4th I’m sure all will be getting the PUP 5w30 with lubegard. I have redline in the other two but that was recent change over from PUP I’ve always been using and well yeah great oil for the Hemi it’s great at hurting the wallet haha specially when your doing 3 oil changes a month.

 

[QwikKota]

My tick turned out to be a broken manifold stud so disregard any input from me, hah. My tick gets quieter as the engine warms up. Drivers rear lower heat shield nut rotates when I put a wrench on it.

 

[Burla]

My tick turned out to be a broken manifold stud so disregard any input from me, hah. My tick gets quieter as the engine warms up. Drivers rear lower heat shield nut rotates when I put a wrench on it.

I often "felt" much of the lubrication strategies hemi tick numbers are skewed by the fact there are other causes of tick. I mean at 80% success rate for top strategy and 50% for the optional strategy, if you add the fact some of the negatives are actually exhaust related, imo it is just that it makes the success rate that more impressive. There is no fact the other way, as in if you tick disappears it's gone, so at a minimum the positive successes are just that, a success. But "some" of the negatives are not related to any strategy. Meaning, the actual numbers of these strategies at killing hemi lifter tick are even better then the numbers show. Ram forum as a group sure did a good thing here developing options for this scourge.

I appreciate the update.


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[QwikKota]

I often "felt" much of the lubrication strategies hemi tick numbers are skewed by the fact there are other causes of tick. I mean at 80% success rate for top strategy and 50% for the optional strategy, if you add the fact some of the negatives are actually exhaust related, imo it is just that it makes the success rate that more impressive. There is no fact the other way, as in if you tick disappears it's gone, so at a minimum the positive successes are just that, a success. But "some" of the negatives are not related to any strategy. Meaning, the actual numbers of these strategies at killing hemi lifter tick are even better then the numbers show. Ram forum as a group sure did a good thing here developing options for this scourge.

I appreciate the update.


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My ear is not fine tuned enough to tell sounds apart such as piston slap vs lifter tick. Some people have that gift but I would bet the majority does not. I just now looked at the results. Definitely not overly favoring any of the 3 votes. I have also used LiquiMoly lifter product before I realized my tick was an exhaust leak.

 

[edro2024]

No, they aren't the same, liqui moly uses mos2 in their engine additives that call for moly, the moly in lubegard is oil soluble like the moly in redline and other oils. Plus I don't think liqui moy has any esters that I know of.

@Burla do you have an ingredient list for bio tech? I ordered the 32 oz. Planning to use it on my new cam, lifters and such. I've watched the oil guy videos too. Just can't find a list of what is in this stuff. TIA