Snake oil. Mouse milk. Whiffle dust. Take your pick — few products have earned such unflattering sobriquets as aftermarket motor-oil additives. And for the very good reason that these promised ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 106, Section 4: JOURNAL OF FUELS AND LUBRICANTS (1997), pp. 1298-1305 (8 pages) The Ball Rust Test (BRT), a corrosion bench test developed for evaluating the rust preventing ...

From the time the Environmental Protection Agency proposed that ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) be run in all on-highway diesel vehicles to when it was fully implemented in late 2006, there has been ...

Under normal circumstances, most modern engine oil and gasoline brands work fine on their own to keep your engine running smoothly. But there may be cases where even the best of them could use a ...

If you wonder about the purpose of all the chemical additives blended into truck engine oils—especially the new PC-11 formulations coming to market this December—it helps to think about barbecue sauce ...

Dear Doctor: I own a few pre-1970 cars and have heard many stories about these older car engines having camshaft failure from the use of the wrong engine oil. Can you recommend the correct oil?