TC-W3 marine two stroke oil as a gasoline additive
#16
I suggest using Nissan recommended ester oil. Personally I tend to trust teams of highly educated engineers with decades of experience, opposed to a handful of guys of a forum pouring random crap from autozone in their cars. Just because your car sounds like a lawnmower, doesnt mean you should put lawnmower oil in it.
I have to admit I am curious about this and it is all over the net with people using it and claiming positive results. I am also interested in the long term affects since it seems this does go back a ways but have yet to find anyone posting results from several thousand of miles of usage.
#17
Oil consumption is caused by ring wear. There is nothing you can do to fix the problem except rebuild the engine. Dumping some weedwacker oil in your gas tank is only going to make the problem worse.
#18
I have to admit I am curious about this and it is all over the net with people using it and claiming positive results. I am also interested in the long term affects since it seems this does go back a ways but have yet to find anyone posting results from several thousand of miles of usage.
See the originating thread. http://www.ls1.com/forums/f48/been-t...6/#post1545356 Granted it's >50pages but there are ~5yrs. of posts. There may be other forums w/ long term users.
#19
Maybe there is some unseen reason it works, but as far as the ring wear is concerned I have never had another motor nor do I know of another motor with such an oil consumption problem that the manufacturer has done nothing (again for the people who did not notice the problem until warranty had run out) to rectify the problem when they have admitted to a design flaw
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Looks like you owned yourself there genius
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Maybe there is some unseen reason it works, but as far as the ring wear is concerned I have never had another motor nor do I know of another motor with such an oil consumption problem that the manufacturer has done nothing (again for the people who did not notice the problem until warranty had run out) to rectify the problem when they have admitted to a design flaw
If you have an oil consumption problem it's worth trying, what have you got to lose? A few dollars for a qt. of oil. My use of TC-W3 as a preventative measure, will hopefully make oil consumption a non-issue.
#23
Good point! That said, the genius 'Troll' kept harping on the 2-stroke oil aspect of the thing. It's a minor factor, the 2-stroke oil is used @ 1oz./4-5gals.of fuel = 512-640/1 ratio. Over 100 times less than what's used in a 2-stroke engine. In even the best top tier fuels, there's likely to be a higher concentration of water & contaminants in the 10% ethanol. The oil is just a good way to get the TC-W3 additive package into the fuel system, since 2-stroke oil is meant to mix w/ gas.
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#24
Interesting that the VQ30 series had no oil burning problems even after >200k miles. There's a lot of controversy on this issue, since it doesn't affect all VQ35 engines. One theory is that it's due to changes in the VQ35 PCV system. Which causes the ring packs to gum up & not seal properly against the cylinder wall. That could account for some reports that TC-W3 may reduce oil consumption. As the ring packs are cleaned, they seal better, oil consumption drops.
If you have an oil consumption problem it's worth trying, what have you got to lose? A few dollars for a qt. of oil. My use of TC-W3 as a preventative measure, will hopefully make oil consumption a non-issue.
If you have an oil consumption problem it's worth trying, what have you got to lose? A few dollars for a qt. of oil. My use of TC-W3 as a preventative measure, will hopefully make oil consumption a non-issue.
Cleaning the ring build up would not lessen oil consumption. The one any only way to lessen oil consumption is rebuild the engine.
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At least you finally posted something worthwhile in this thread. I was serious about giving you a job BTW. I do quite a bit of work at Pilgrim station in your area, we have a very big project going on right now and could use some more construction support (as long as you are not a union piece of sh*t).
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