Why I do NOT Use Lucas (Opinion)...

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(10-24-2016 )Texasdude74 Wrote:  I was one of the biggest doubters of Lucas when I first started trucking. I'm still skeptical, but I do have to admit that of the people I know the ones that got the most mileage before rebuilds did all use it, coincidentally or not. One guy in particular, Robert aka "Mr Grumpy" I believe has Lucas in his veins. His '05 Western Star stinger car carrier with a 14 liter Detroit went 1.6M miles and 48k hours before needing to be rebuilt for oil useage. The head had never been off, it had gone through 6 complete sets of injectors, two ecms and two wiring harnesses and several massive oil leaks on the rear structure and I can't remember how many turbos. The last 100k he was running a 50:50 mix of Lucas and Rotella, was still burning or leaking 3 gallons per week. Wanna guess what his fill oil was? Unbelievably, to me at least he still wasn't happy with an astounding 1.6M miles cause he said both his 3406 and C15 cracked 2M. So he literally junked the Detroit and repowered with 6nz cat reman.

Two guys I sent to Rawze with a '15 and a '16 Pete were a good example. The '15 had 240k miles and had used one gallon of Lucas since day one and the cams showed no wear. The '16 had 50k miles, never used any and had very noticeable wear already.
Hot idle oil pressure on the '15 was 32psi and the '16 had 21psi. They both had the same pressure going down the road. Something to think about.
Still think the stuff has little use in a Cat that has high oil pressure from the start. Couple gallons of that stuff in a Cat on a cold morning and you've got common rail pressures!
Might be something to it in engines with very little pressure from the factory. Especially in an application that requires lots of low idling.

I have never disagreed that raising your viscosity a bit and the hydraulic pressure ratings of your oil do not have some WELL KNOWN POSITIVE benefits, especially in a large class-8 engine. It is the whole bastard of aN over-priced, over-marketed, big advertised crap of a concept called "PUKE_AS" that people have been brainwashed into believing it is some kind of f##king miracle juice WHEN IN FACT! --- THERE ARE ACTUALLY BETTER PRODUCTS THAT WILL ACCOMPLISH THE SAME DAMN THING FOR MUCH LOWER COSTS!!! --- IT IS CALLED GEAR LUBE!. THAT OVER-PRICED CRAP HAS ZERO ADDATIVES -- NONE! -- iT IS NOTHING BUT AN ULTRA-PURIFIED STRAIGHT UP 110-GRADE MINERAL OIL! -- SAME AS A 110 VISCOSITY GEAR LUBE! -- ONLY IT IS MISSING ALL THE ADDITIVES! PERIOD ASIDE FROM SOME VERY BASIC OLEFIN-POLYMERS (THE OIL-BASED EQUIVALENT TO SAW-DUST IN STOP-LEAK PRODUCTS FOR RADIATORS))!.

IF YOU NEED THE STOP-LEAK THAT BADLY -- THEN FIX YOUR DAMN ENGINE! -- IT DOES NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO SLOW DOWN WEAR!.

ANY 110-grade (or close there-of viscosity oil) will raise your hydraulic pressure rating in exactly the same way -- AND GUESS WHAT -- ACTUAL GEAR LUBE HAS ADDITIVES THAT PROTECT METAL COMPONENTS UNLIKE PUKE-AS!!!.. AND IT IS HALF THE F##KING COST!@!!

Take that brainwashed crap to other forums where people can be duped so easily!