[Shotimes] Power steering and AutoRx

[Ron Porter]

My '94 had leaky valve seals. On the original Mobil 1 that the POs used, it
went 800 miles to a quart. Castrol got that up to 1,600 miles/quart. About
every 3-4th cold start, I would get a puff of smoke.

After the long drive to CA & back on fresh Castrol MaxLife, the long hours
of running hot really seemed to help. The puff on startup went away, and I
only went through 3 quarts for the whole 5,500 miles or so. Which I thought
was great considering the high temps, track time, etc.

The MaxLife oils seem to work better for crank seal leaks (like my '95 had),
but it does OK on valve seals...or well enough to forego the expense of
changing the seals.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Donald Mallinson
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 12:08 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Power steering and AutoRx

Yep, that is why I said it works against "leaks".  If he really is 
"consuming" it rather than having it drip on the ground, there isn't 
anything that will work.  Maxlife is very marginal against sealing valve 
seal leaks (and the associated high oil consumption), because most of 
those are caused by worn valve guides, and the clearance issues are such 
that no seal "swell" stuff will be able to help.

Don Mallinson

Ron Porter wrote:

>And it really depends on the cause of his oil consumption. The Valvoline
>MaxLife (and the better Castrol MaxLife) both work for cranks seals (quite
>well) and valve seals (pretty well). If the rings are shot, or the walls
are
>scored, nothing in a bottle is really gonna help much.
>
>Ron Porter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
>On Behalf Of Donald Mallinson
>Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:11 AM
>To: cmichaelo@optonline.net; shotimes@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Power steering and AutoRx
>
>After Bill Staib reported to me that Valvoline Maxlife oil helped almost 
>totally stop leaks in his Gen I SHO, I tried it in my '89 with typical 
>front and rear main leaks.  I ran it for part of the summer the last 
>two  years, not the entire summer, as I still went with synthetic for 
>racing, but it has noticably slowed down the leaks.  A big improvement.
>
>I am a believer that you buy the oil engineered with all the additives 
>already in it, and don't put additives in.  So if you are trying to stop 
>leaks, try the Maxlife (and there are several imitators that others have 
>reported good results with too) first, before just pouring in a bottle 
>of something off the shelf.
>
>Don Mallinson
>
>cmichaelo@optonline.net wrote:
>
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>
>>I think that it was Paul Fisher who also have had some very good
experience
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>with AutoRx.
>  
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>>I just started using it in the engine (not PS) in an attempt to reduce my
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>large oil consumption.
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>>I too am under the impression that this is indeed a good product.
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>>I'll report what my experiences with this product is.  It'll take a while
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>cause of all the vibration sh*t I have to deal with. 
>  
>
>>Michael
>>94MTX,green,BOS+,Koni/Intrax,Baer,Corbeau
>>SHO items for sale: http://hometown.aol.com/cmichaelo/for_sale.html
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