motor oils prefered on performance boats
10-25-2014 | 10:32 PM
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additive I use....
Is the inside of your motor dirty? Most likely! Some people will tell you the only way to clean your motor is to tear it down and rebuild it. This is no good!!! KaleCoAuto internals cleaner is a special combination of iron, graphite, and copper shrapnel of assorted sizes that work to sand and polish the inside of your motor! Add 2oz per quart of oil in your car. New engine clean shrapnel should be used at every oil change! Bottle includes pouring mechanism. Comes in 16oz packages. Do not ingest. Contact a physician immediately if ingested, do not induce vomiting.
Is the inside of your motor dirty? Most likely! Some people will tell you the only way to clean your motor is to tear it down and rebuild it. This is no good!!! KaleCoAuto internals cleaner is a special combination of iron, graphite, and copper shrapnel of assorted sizes that work to sand and polish the inside of your motor! Add 2oz per quart of oil in your car. New engine clean shrapnel should be used at every oil change! Bottle includes pouring mechanism. Comes in 16oz packages. Do not ingest. Contact a physician immediately if ingested, do not induce vomiting.
10-25-2014 | 10:36 PM
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LOL tomtbone. any product that has the words Shrapnel and sand and polish the inside of your motor has to be good send me 3 cases ASAP. I have a couple dirty motors that need a good internal Sand and polish!
10-25-2014 | 11:59 PM
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^^^^ I see 15w-50 syn blend Mystik. I posted this before as I have been buying 2 gallon jugs for 25 bucks and what a deal for this motor oil. I am going on my 3rd year using in many boat apps. This oil is made by Citgo and really is somewhat a no name to use in the boat world. Anyways the deal is use it, it is one tough freakin oil.
I have a customer who lost an impeller but decided to keep running his boat, The temp gauge pegged but he wanted to make it back to the ramp a couple of miles away (his words).
Well I get the boat in and go over all the info from the owner and then look at the motor. It looked like it was in a fire plus had fire ext all over the place. The engine died out on the water before he could make it back and was towed in. But when the engine died the owner had to use a fire ext. because he thought it was on fire from smoking really bad.
After looking things over I would say the motor is toast at that timeframe. The starter even looks like it was on fire but some of that was due to the wiring harness was completely melted and burned in 2 and I say completely. I had to replace so many parts on this app from the serve overheat except the block, heads, intake and carb.
Anyways to make a long story short the V8 350 Volvo lived internally on the engine side as I have no idea how. I think the engine had to be at the point if the wiring harness did not melt / burned in 2 to shut the motor down, who knows if the motor would have lived. So I sent an oil sample off to get tested that was used in the extreme overheat.
The oil sample results came back better than I would have ever of thought. The short list of it was, wear metals a tad high, oxidation a tad high, viscosity not bad and so on. I even cut open the oil filter and it for 4 sure got hot but really no wear metals in between the pleats.
Anyways for the money I don't think you can beat this oil. 25 bucks for 2 gallon jugs. That's just a tad over 3 bucks per qt. The deal of the day and I think worth trying.
I have a customer who lost an impeller but decided to keep running his boat, The temp gauge pegged but he wanted to make it back to the ramp a couple of miles away (his words).
Well I get the boat in and go over all the info from the owner and then look at the motor. It looked like it was in a fire plus had fire ext all over the place. The engine died out on the water before he could make it back and was towed in. But when the engine died the owner had to use a fire ext. because he thought it was on fire from smoking really bad.
After looking things over I would say the motor is toast at that timeframe. The starter even looks like it was on fire but some of that was due to the wiring harness was completely melted and burned in 2 and I say completely. I had to replace so many parts on this app from the serve overheat except the block, heads, intake and carb.
Anyways to make a long story short the V8 350 Volvo lived internally on the engine side as I have no idea how. I think the engine had to be at the point if the wiring harness did not melt / burned in 2 to shut the motor down, who knows if the motor would have lived. So I sent an oil sample off to get tested that was used in the extreme overheat.
The oil sample results came back better than I would have ever of thought. The short list of it was, wear metals a tad high, oxidation a tad high, viscosity not bad and so on. I even cut open the oil filter and it for 4 sure got hot but really no wear metals in between the pleats.
Anyways for the money I don't think you can beat this oil. 25 bucks for 2 gallon jugs. That's just a tad over 3 bucks per qt. The deal of the day and I think worth trying.
First your customer is moron, (you knew that) Secondly, that is pretty amazing. You didn`t say but I take it he was using The Mystic?
10-26-2014 | 12:07 AM
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You know how it is, most boat owners especially rec boaters do not ever look at their gauges nor how to trim their boat properly. Early Volvo's did not have warning horns either unless you had it installed after the fact plus it was a carb app. Their fuel injected motors did.
yes I having been using the Mystik 15 w - 50 JT8 in all my customers boats for over 2 years now. Use their gear oils as well, I have something better in the works for gear lube but really not worth using in non performance apps. I will stick with all the Mystik products for those medium performance to non performance apps. For the money Mystik is a really good product made by Citgo.
yes I having been using the Mystik 15 w - 50 JT8 in all my customers boats for over 2 years now. Use their gear oils as well, I have something better in the works for gear lube but really not worth using in non performance apps. I will stick with all the Mystik products for those medium performance to non performance apps. For the money Mystik is a really good product made by Citgo.
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10-26-2014 | 10:21 AM
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Used oil analysis WILL NOT give you much of an idea regarding which oil is truly superior in regard to wear. You would have to accumulate millions of miles of testing and countless samples to achieve reliable trending. That said, it is a great to to catch problems and establish a oil change interval.
Personally I use RedLine 10w-40 synthetic. As long as you choose the proper viscosity oil and change it when it's begun to degrade,(established by several UOA's) you will likely have a very happy BBC. I will agree that Mystic products are top notch, along with Brad Penn. I do however think that a 50wt conventional oil is way too thick for even a BBC with loose clearances. Just my personal opinion.
Personally I use RedLine 10w-40 synthetic. As long as you choose the proper viscosity oil and change it when it's begun to degrade,(established by several UOA's) you will likely have a very happy BBC. I will agree that Mystic products are top notch, along with Brad Penn. I do however think that a 50wt conventional oil is way too thick for even a BBC with loose clearances. Just my personal opinion.
Last edited by Borgie; 10-26-2014 at 10:29 AM.
