Valvoline Restore & Protect experiment

[the blur]

I'm doing a science experiment. My truck has stuck oil rings, like the TSB says. Burns a qt every 500 miles.
I'm trying Valvoline Restore & Protect without the top engine cleaner job. Just letting the oil do its thing.

3000 miles on the V R&P, still burns oil like crazy.
time will tell, & I'm still hoping.

 

[rdezs]

I'm also doing the science experiment, LOL on the neighbors 6.2 engine with 192000 miles. Going to help him with an AFM delete, so we'll see how clean the inside is. He's got about 1500 miles till we dump the second Valvoline oil change. First one came out really dark, so I'm thinking it's doing something.

 

[Marky Dissod]

I'm doing a science experiment. My truck has stuck oil rings, like the TSB says. Burns a qt every 500 miles.
I'm trying Valvoline Restore & Protect without the top engine cleaner job. Just letting the oil do its thing.

3000 miles on the V R&P, still burns oil like crazy.
time will tell, & I'm still hoping.

If ethanol fuel is cheap enough where you live, you should try it instead of, or at least blend it with - gasoline.
Let e85 and Valvoline Restore & Protect do their things concurrently.

 

[j91z28d1]

if you've got the old style valve cover, you need to update that since it's the cause of most of the oil use. cleaning rings can't solve a hardware problem. but I'm looking forward to your results.


seems everyone is jumping on this. I've got a few k on the first run as well. no issues before had thou. Just for the heck of it. I'll cut the filter open though to see


the real test for this stuff is if someone could. test sticky afm lifters, or maybe atleast take them apart document the amount of varnish and then run a while and re test. be a job for a youtuber. but would be super cool if it could actually keep these lifters clean inside.

 

[Charlie207]

Did we all watch the same video?

I've been running it since last summer.

 

[j91z28d1]

Did we all watch the same video?

I've been running it since last summer.

I believe we did haha.

and donjetman says there's a version of it that's more aggressive for Cummings diesels. but also more expensive and would probably need to change filter more often

 

[Marky Dissod]

I believe we did haha.

and donjetman says there's a more aggressive version of it for Cummins diesels. but also more expensive and would probably need to change filter more often

Valvoline Premium Blue Restore. Not sure about the viscosity - 10W30? About $80 a gallon.
Had I a gallon of this stuff, I'd cut 1/2 a quart of it into my engine per oil change.

 

[the blur]

E85 is a scam. MPG drops 25% and it costs the same per gallon, if not more.

 

[j91z28d1]

E85 is a scam. MPG drops 25% and it costs the same per gallon, if not more.

it is in no way a scam. it is 100 plus octane race gas at the local gas station for less than 93 piss water petrol.

the 6.2 engines love it, it also cleans the top of pistons. now gm didn't spend the money to install a physical sensor on these trucks and trys to do the math off the reg o2 sensors which is mostly a failure. but that's not e85's fault.


just because you don't own a car that can take full advantage of e85, I hate seeing people shit on it. anyone with boost and a flex fuel sensor it's a god send.now if we would. remove the tariff on it and just sell it at the price Brazil sells it to us we would be set.

 

[the 18th letter]

I have a flex fuel vehicle and kind of agree with him, wouldn’t call it a scam tho. I have the 5.3 and I run a couple of tanks per year during road trips for the benefits to the engine. E85 costs about the same as 87 near me. I also don’t drive it daily and I hear E85 is not good for garaged vehicles