[Mgs] Oil Additive

[Max Heim]

I agree with Charley… I did that for a while but it was inconvenient, and once I found a proper oil it was pointless.

Consider, if you have to top off your oil by adding a quart between changes (as is common), are you also adding the exact proportional amount of your additive? It’s just impractical to deal with on a regular basis. There is nothing magical about Castrol 20W50.

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Max Heim
'66 MGB

> On Jul 5, 2019, at 3:26 PM, Charley Robinson via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> Why raise your cost by adding an additive when there are oils that already have the zinc?  I use VR1; all the local auto parts stores have it.
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> CR
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> On 7/5/2019 10:50 AM, FrankK via Mgs wrote:
>> There was a great deal of  discussion here regarding the use of different oil to compensate for the lack of ZDDP in oil these days.  I didn’t see anyone include a discussion of the practice of adding ZDDP to oil that is lacking in it.  There are several sources where it is available and I have availed myself of it and added it to my  Castrol 20-50 when I change the oil in my 80 MGBLE.
>> Is there a problem in doing this in lieu of using Valvoline Racing Oil say?
>> Frank Krajewski
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