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Old 10-15-2025, 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Geoff View Post
Lake Speed, the Motor OIL Geek, has some good videos on oils.
Scientific testing, not opinion, not guessing.

A very interesting one was a FT cam used with oil that had 1200ppm of Zinc.
Very little wear. Then an 'additive' with 3600 ppm of Zinc was added & the cam/lifters failed not long afterwards.

The moral of the story: get the right oil & do not add additives which can destroy the delicate oil package.

Delicate why?