Well, personal experience counts for more than "antidotal" [sic] information
in my book. So after replacing the cam and lifters I am taking the issue
very seriously. I wonder, was the SAE testing a 1960s-era flat tappet
engine? Or just performing laboratory wear tests on a jig?
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 1/11/13 8:15 AM, Duvall Video Productions at mike@duvallvideo.com wrote:
> Max it is a scam in that the internet is a modern network of bad information
> that marketers can take advantage of. From a statistical standpoint a few
> problems on the net is antidotal.
>
> When the Society of Automotive Engineers publishes a paper saying 960 ppm is
> enough and everyone sells break in oils for new cam/tappets, then marketers
> are preying on you.
>
>
> I'm curious if the study Barrie mentions below was published anywhere....
>
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:06:26 -0500
> From: Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca>
> To: "Stephen West-Fisher" <steve@coastaldatasystems.com>, "'MG List'"
> <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] ZDDP
> Message-ID: <E1TtQwc-00064p-El@gamma.look.ca>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>
> I did a test for Shell and it showed that ZDDP was not needed
> .....................unless you were at full bore for days....and
> even with ZDDP that would wear things !!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2013, at 8:07 AM, mgs-request@autox.team.net wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:46:01 -0800
>> From: Max Heim <mvheim@sonic.net>
>> To: MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Mgs] ZDDP scam?
>> Message-ID: <CD14AED9.426F7%mvheim@sonic.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>> How was it a "scam" when all motor oil produced over a period of a decade
> or
>> two included ZDDP as an antiwear additive, as a matter of course, without
>> any particular advertising or marketing emphasis?
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