Motorcraft XL-17 mystery additive

[askani79705]

Have you tried QSUD 5w20 or PP 0w20 ? My BIL swears PP 0w20 quieted things down.

 

[camelCase]

tl;dr


DO NOT ADD THIS ADDITIVE AND A ZDDP OR OTHER ANTIWEAR ADDITIVE TOGETHER!!


Research has shown that minor amounts (
Here is a link to a PDF of a paper describing these results: http://www.pdfhost.net/index.php?Action=Download&File=82db8930a57e6ee3ca17c81de0ec772a

Paper Cite:
Hu, E., Hu, X., Liu, T., Fang, L., Dearn, K., & Xu, H. (2013). The role of soot particles in the tribological behavior of engine lubricating oils. Wear, 304, 152-161.

 

[EricF]

looking at the msds, the PETROLEUM DISTILLATES
HYDROTREATED HEAVY PARAFFINIC is the same stuff that's in lucas's oil stabilizer, which breaks down to residual oil.

So if I'm reading the xl-17 msds right, it's basically a darkened/graphited lucas oil stabilizer. Uh oh spaghetti-o!!

 

[friendly_jacek]

Originally Posted By: camelCase

Research has shown that minor amounts (
Here is a link to a PDF of a paper describing these results: http://www.pdfhost.net/index.php?Action=Download&File=82db8930a57e6ee3ca17c81de0ec772a

Paper Cite:
Hu, E., Hu, X., Liu, T., Fang, L., Dearn, K., & Xu, H. (2013). The role of soot particles in the tribological behavior of engine lubricating oils. Wear, 304, 152-161.


I must be tired tonight. Soot creates more wear but sometimes less, and you may benefit from adding some carbon to oil?