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All else equal - Would you add an Oil Additive like Slick 50 to your TCH All else equal - Would you add an Oil Additive like Slick 50 to your TCH
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View Poll Results: All Else = , would you use an aftermarket Oil Additive on your TCH
Definitely - I have experienced MEASURABLE benefits from 1 2.33%
YES - Although I don't have empirical data, I perceive a significant benefit from using them 1 2.33%
MAYBE - They can't hurt 7 16.28%
NO - Why take a chance that this could hurt your long term reliability 22 51.16%
NO - I know of specific cases where they've made an engine run worse 2 4.65%
HECK NO - ARE YOU CRAZY? THESE THINGS ARE TRASH and will RUIN YOUR ENGINE ! 10 23.26%
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Old 08-29-2006, 07:28 PM
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Default Re: All else equal - Would you add an Oil Additive like Slick 50 to your TCH
I was looking for an article in which DuPont expressly forbade the use of PTFE for use as an oil addative (I know I saw it somewhere, back around 1994 or so - using Archie of all things) but this is the closest I could dig up this evening.
Have a good read.

http://www.msgroup.org/TIP043.html

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