Date:         Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:48:28 -0800
Reply-To:     jon <jon@KENNEKE.COM>
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From:         jon <jon@KENNEKE.COM>
Subject:      Re: Oil is Killing our Cars? PTFE
Comments: To: Jeff Stewart <fonman4277@EARTHLINK.NET>
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I'm always a sucker for an oil/additive thread......

It would be interesting to try this sh...er, stuff on an engine that is
near the end of it's life (like the one in my wife's 86 Westy). Heck, I'll
be the guinea pig. So, what is better, slick-50 or tuf-oil, or other PTFE
sh..I mean stuff? I'll add it and report back.

Ok, so I will tell a story about slick-50, and no one will ever buy a car
from me again. ;) I had an '84 Subaru with a very vanagon-like lifter
click (common problem on those VW rip-off engines). I added Slick-50 (or
something similar with teflon). Sounded like a champ, and I sold the car.

If only VW engines were as reliable as Soobies!

Jon (ok, enough talk about oil...let's get back to the Sirius/XM merger
thread. ;))

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Jeff Stewart wrote:

> <Slick 50 is BAD stuff, with PTFE or Teflon , a
> solid that accumulates in oil passageways.>
>
>
> Don't tell that to Mike Benthin (on the type2 list), as he is convinced
> that his '78 Westy has made it 248K miles on it's original, never been
> opened engine due to PTFE. Actually he has used Tuf-Oil, which also
> contains PTFE. Back in the 80's I had a friend with a 31' Chris Craft
> offshore racing boat, he used Tuf-Oil in it's 420hp Chevy big blocks and he
> ran the engines way past their estimated life span, and he too swore it was
> because of Tuf-Oil.    Jeff
>
> Jeff Stewart
> fonman4277@earthlink.net
> http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/vwcampersmidatlantic/
> http://home.earthlink.net/~fonman4277/vanagon%5b1%5d?200712
>