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Subject:Re: Techron
From:Jack R.
Date:Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:08:00 -0400

I'm very pleased with Lucas Heavy Duty Oil Stabilizer as my 5th quart of
oil, along with 4 quarts of Total/Elf synthetic racing oil 10W50.
http://tinyurl.com/2aoxeyl

Runs great on this and I never hear a metallic sound upon start-up!

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
David Beierl
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 6:45 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Techron

At 06:39 PM 6/19/2010, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>There's Teflon in some oils sold for additives.  Pretty slippery
>stuff.  Good for engines?  I don't know.  I don't use it.  DMc

Either no benefit or actively bad, likely the latter.  DuPont tried
the get the Slick-50 people to take their name off the product, dunno
if they succeeded.  I believe they still sell the PTFE powder to them
though, tsk tsk.

Yours,
David
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