Has anyone used Slick 50 or something similar?
 

I've heard it can increase your fuel economy. By how much? guess that depends on the engine,wear,etc. Wanted to know if anyone out there has any real life experience. Thanks

I remember hearing bad things about such products but it has been probably 10 years so I don't remember details. Z-Maxx though is almost entirely mineral oil. Be sure to check the msds for those products.

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yeah I saw those but wanted to see if someone has recently done it. Thanks for the replies

My dad used to run it in some of his cars - but that was way back in time ... 1970s or so.
He found they ran smoother, no solid MPG claims though he says they also used a bit less fuel.

same as others
 

same as others not worthy of expense! If you do your own maintenance then a exact same alternative for 1/3 price is mystic lube. But you shouldnt need it and if you have a new- er automobile that runs thinner oil its not helping.
They did have an excellent ad campaign and sold tons of thier products.
Not snake oil pardon the pun but it should already be in a quality oil product.
Thats an 1980s - 90s thing better off looking intozymol or lucas products.

I treated/ran Slick 50 in my 1990 Geo Tracker (bought new) for nearly 20 years before it died of rust and corrosion of the electrical system.

Engine failure was not what killed the Tracker, but most likely it was money wasted.

If you want better gas mileage and are looking at oil, go with a 0w-XX synthetic. It's lighter when cold and will likely give <1MPG. You'll save less in gas than the oil costs.

Just take one of your teflon cooking pans, and scrape the teflon off and dump it into your engine. Then add a half-quart or so of very very very thin mineral oil, or even diesel fuel.

There, you've just put Slick-50 in your engine! Congrats, you now have particles of a solid in the oil, which can accumulate and even clump together and clog oil passages in the worst case.

Teflon is a solid. If you grind it up fine, it's still a solid. It won't coat anything unless you prep the surface carefully and then treat it correctly and then perform a much more complicated process than "dump the crap into your oil".

Not worth it, and potentially harmful. IMHO.

-SoD

Thanks for the info

Ran it back in the 80's & 90's in a 66 mustang, 79 RX7, 86 Pontiac 6000 STE, Several audis.
Never had any problems.

Zmax
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...brpPKhprnbWBiA

Slick 50
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...a9LI9_2qwZBHYw

came across this the other day, seems relevant to this thread.

F1 lubrication - Forum - F1technical.net

lubromoly/petromoly

i've never heard of it and i've seen a LOT of oil additives before, almost all of which were based on junk "science". it appears that this may or may not have a basis of fact.

As a note, I was into mpg(a little bit) just didn't a-b-a test things back then. My " recollection" is that I got better mileage.

i guess i'll share:

i've used slick50..... once..... pretty sure it did nothing but thin out my wallet.



anyways, did more research on the lubromoly/petromoly, turns out some of the BITOG guys have also played with it, reports of 3% gains seem to be the norm, even when used in oils that already have decent amounts of moly in them.

looks to cost about $9/quart at most stores. most seem to use a "full" dose once, then half doses afterwards to keep the level of moly in the oil after a change high enough to have an effect.

at a 3% gain at 30MPG, that's 30.9MPG. assuming a 5,000 mile oil change interval, you'll burn through 161.81 gallons of gas instead of 166.67 gallons, a difference of 4.86 gallons. assuming $3.50/gallon, that's $17.01 of fuel saved by spending $9 on an oil additive. that's for the initial dose. "maintenance" doses, $17.01 by spending $4.50.

and if you run oil changes longer than that, you'll save more.



so, pretty small number, but interesting to see something having a benefit.

try Z-Maxx instead !!

As the msds link I posted shows, zmax and slick50 are entirely/almost entirely mineral oil. If it does work you could save yourself some money.

Not since the 80s.

I tried it for a couple of changes in an older car and didn't note any of the so-called "improvements." Fuel mileage stayed the same, engine sounded the same, no perceptible change in power output. My assessment then was about what it is now: snake oil.

Hmm. I wonder if you could render oil from snakes. Would it do better?

I've never read any real world praise about it or the like.
I do run Lucas oil stabilizer in my high mile rig's. The motors run smoother and quieter, with quieter cold start's. As far as helping EF, I can't say other then a smoother running engine is going to be more efficient.

Moly seems to be legitimate. It's not pushed by one specific company as an additive. There are oils that use high amounts of moly for it's benefits.