Originally Posted By: electrolover
Omfg! Now your snake oil not only cleans it fills in scored cylinders?
That's complete hog wash.
What are you talking about? I never said the Restore did any cleaning. Never. I'm sure Trajan was just talking about the color of Restore. If you would have had any ACTUAL experience with it before spouting off, you would have known that.
But I did make three claims....the first two are absolutely legit and provable based on previous experiences:
1.) After adding Restore, I immediately drove the truck 400 miles down the highway. It burned half the oil it used to burn before adding Restore on this same exact trip.
2.) Driving around town the next 700 miles, I've only burned 1/3 quart. That is a big reduction in oil consumption as well.
3.) Although I have no data to support this, my engine does run A LOT smoother. At idle and going down the road.
I never said it cleaned anything electro. If you read a bit more carefully, you'll see that people were discussing the differences between stuck rings and worn out rings/cylinder walls and how AutoRX and Restore might possible address one of these issues, but not both.
Originally Posted By: Trajan
Restore compression is one of the claims. It failed, thus it didn't impress me. ARX did not fail.
It is possible that your compression was low due to valve problems, not with rings. I don't think Restore could fix a valve problem....like your valves not sealing well. This would cause low compression, but Restore wouldn't help it. But maybe you have all sorts of deposits on your valves and AutoRx cleaned them all up? I don't know. Just a guess.