Anyone ever use this snake oil. How about lucas.

 

Ben

o.k. so this will end up a bit of an OT oil war thread.

 

I have used restore in my dune buggy and it seemed to have helped for a few years. It did stop the oil burning in one cylinder. I'll be swapping motors this year.

 

I use Lucas in all my antique VW's and my riding lawn mower. Those air cooled engines all run hot and leak oil. In addition to the extra protection that I believe Lucas gives me it actually stops the oil from leaking as much during the long periods that the cars aren't even run due to the change in viscosity especially when cold.

 

I also put Lucas tranny in all the high mileage cars that I work on and in my tow vehicle (120k).

 

Their PS fluid has had excellent results for my in all cars and particularly with Subaru's.

 

Someone will certainly post the link to bobtheoilguy(or similar) talking about foaming, etc w/Lucas.

 

Dave

Anyone ever use this snake oil. How about lucas.

 

Ben

 

never heard of restore. I have seen 1 case where simply adding the lucas oil stabilizer completely stopped a valve stem seal leak. it was cool.

As with any additive, it works great for some people, and not at all for others. My brother used Restore in an old dodge truck, the next week it threw a rod out of the oil pan! I used it in an old nissan car, and it didn't burn oil as much afterwards. No additive will fix mechanical failure or wear, just cover it up or slow down the symptoms or results of that failure. If your worried about oil consumption, just use STP oil treatment.

no i just saw this commercial for restore and this fellow at work said it worked wonders on his suburban. i know to try seafoam for cleaning but i thought that this restore was suspost to be a perminant fix of sorts.

 

Ben

IIR it's got weird blue/green tint to it. Need to shake it up before use. I think the theory is that it halps fill in scratches and thus helps get back some compression thru actually fillin in the scratches rather than just running a thicker oil.

 

Seafoam certainly has it's uses but they seem to be opposite of what Restore does.

 

Dave

This stuff I had bought called Rislone (the blue/green stuff) actually stopped my old '86 GL sedan (SPFI) from leaking oil.... for about a month.

 

I've used Lucas too, it also worked. Never heard of Restore, though.

I've used Restore. It's not a fix-all, but it did help the tired old 283 in the '68 Chevy truck I had. Probally got another year of daily driving out of it after I added Restore. Only reason I tried it was I couldn't afford to get another engine or rebuild that one as I needed the truck on the road. Couldn't afford a replacement vehicle either..

The Restore has a powder in it, that's why you shake it up. The powder, whatever it is, gets in those scratches in the cylinder walls, and I guess the heat of combustion melts it?? The problem is that the powder gets everywhere else the oil takes it. The Rislone is a cleaner, praised here on the board, and should be on your shop shelf right between the Seafoam and Marvels Mystery Oil.