Friends, To bring this thread back to the original intent...If your transmission is wining on acceleration, it has either a scorched bearing, or a scorched gear, or many of both. In essence, you are driving on borrowed time, and anything you can do to extend that time is worth consideration. In this writer's experience, Slick 50 for Manual transmissions has been very effective in smoothing shift effort on four aging VW/Porsches, and has temporarily "repaired" a trashed syncro. I can only speak for my own experience. I would agree (as I mentioned in the first post mentioning S50) that S50 and 99.9% of all other engine additives are pure rubbish. I would also re-iterate that the PTFE in the transmission is not purported to bond to the metal, but rather to act as a "slip-sheet" lubricant... Use your best judgement. Gmb Mega-Sigfile under reconstruction on new hard drive
-----Original Message----- From: Terry Kay [SMTP:CTONLINE@webtv.net] Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 10:27 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Snake Oils Slick 50, Powerup,Prolongs, whatever, with these "miracle" PTFE ingredients, are nothing more than snake oils, that promise a lot and give nothing. Any coating process, has to be applied with either pressure or heat, to inbed it into the metal, so it's there for good. Just dumping a can of this garbage, into your engine, just doesn't make it. Just think about this; Say you wanted to ceramic coat your heads. Do you think you could just dump some ceramic powder into your cooling system, and, bingo, bango, it would inbed itself into the aluminum of your heads? Ah, Ha, Ha, Ha!! Same principle,same theory," but here in the real world", never happen !! I hear Red Line oil's are a real good synthetic.( especially their gear oils and trans oils) I would give that a shot, before I would, go dumping any "Miracle in a can" into anything, I owned. Chow, Chow, For Now, Terry |
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