Snake oil. Mouse milk. Whiffle dust. Take your pick — few products have earned such unflattering sobriquets as aftermarket motor-oil additives. And for the very good reason that these promised ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 106, Section 4: JOURNAL OF FUELS AND LUBRICANTS (1997), pp. 1298-1305 (8 pages) The Ball Rust Test (BRT), a corrosion bench test developed for evaluating the rust preventing ...

March 14, 2009 – We get a lot of press releases and most of them go directly to the bitslag bucket, but this one seems interesting, so take a look and let us know what you think. UPDATE: New Test: ...

Diesel engine oil additives are popular add-on layers of protection, but many of their cornerstone benefits are already engineered into base lubricants. Brian Humphrey, OEM technical liaison for Petro ...

Q: I have a couple of friends: one swears by oil additives – especially the brand Lucas – and another claims an oil additive ruined his truck engine. What is your take on oil additives? A: Some oil ...

From the time the Environmental Protection Agency proposed that ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) be run in all on-highway diesel vehicles to when it was fully implemented in late 2006, there has been ...

Under normal circumstances, most modern engine oil and gasoline brands work fine on their own to keep your engine running smoothly. But there may be cases where even the best of them could use a ...

I’m a member of an antique car club and own a 1989 Dodge Dynasty, a 1965 Ford Mustang and a 1947 MG. Some members in my car club tell me not to use additives such as Slick 50, STP and others in my ...

There's a brave new world of fuel efficiency and operational savings in trucking—one that's enabled more by a combination of advanced engine hardware and oil technology than ever before. It only waits ...