Snake oil. Mouse milk. Whiffle dust. Take your pick — few products have earned such unflattering sobriquets as aftermarket motor-oil additives. And for the very good reason that these promised ...

Under normal circumstances, most modern engine oil and gasoline brands work fine on their own to keep your engine running smoothly. But there may be cases where even the best of them could use a ...

From the time the Environmental Protection Agency proposed that ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) be run in all on-highway diesel vehicles to when it was fully implemented in late 2006, there has been ...

In order to properly maintain and ensure the proper function of many types of machinery, it is crucial to analyze additives or wear metals in lubricating oils and the contaminants in fuel. There are ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 106, Section 4: JOURNAL OF FUELS AND LUBRICANTS (1997), pp. 1298-1305 (8 pages) The Ball Rust Test (BRT), a corrosion bench test developed for evaluating the rust preventing ...

Additives represent 15 to 20 percent of a gallon of oil with the balance being high-quality base oil. Additive packages play a key role in helping to keep an engine clean and protected from varnish ...

March 14, 2009 – We get a lot of press releases and most of them go directly to the bitslag bucket, but this one seems interesting, so take a look and let us know what you think. UPDATE: New Test: ...

Transplanting to SoCal from the East Coast when I took this job a few years ago, I wasn't exactly current on much of the area's lingo. Being called "fool" by my new friends threw me off at first, and ...