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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Like I indicated, if you reduce the blowby to new car specs, you are pretty much to new car compression. Easily measured with a compression checker but only for TDC., nobody ever does compression check at bottom because you cant. Question becomes does the treatment reduce bearing diameter also? And by how much? That is a disassembly required question.
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Oh ye; nothing was ever disassembled and measured with a micrometer and I never did any compression before after tests either that I recall.
So all the:
- 0.5 micron layer on metal surfaces
- = 2 microns of play removed form sleeve bearings and pistons/cylinders
- = 4 microns from a ball or roller bearing
is based on the research papers.
Probably the 1st car I tried this on is the best 'proof' I have that the '2 microns' does happen is the Toyota :
When I got back home (from setting up mines in Africa IIRC) there it was, billowing smoke and very 'sick'.
Upon asking I was told that it was towed back into town; the sleeves honed and the old pistons just put back.
That definitely stopped smoking and smoothed out dramatically.
My (recently asked) Mom says she recalls being very happy with the reduced fuel and oil consumption after.
That car continued on very happily for a good 5 years in that state, with regular-ish services, before getting stolen.
But
I get it:
That's just hearsay to people reading the 'scriblings' of some arb on a forum.
Same as the various forum (elsewhere) posts from people I've never met, I linked earlier.
The only reason
I believe them is that
I have seen BA work for
myself! 
I'd go with the
Peer Reviewed, Published research:
ie:
If Argonne National labs for eg.
does research and writes a paper:
Before they can publish;
their piers at eg:
Harvard Tribology, Stanford Tribology, etc-etc need to review and 'white-ball' the paper before it's allowed to be published.
https://researcher.life/blog/article...nd%20relevance
All the papers Previously linked here: (I hope I didn't miss any)
Other forums where people tried this (not in water) and posted their results:
( It seems Indian people are more open minded than most. They don't just 'drink the Kool-Aid'.
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