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 ...

In order to properly maintain and ensure the proper function of many types of machinery, it is crucial to analyze additives or wear metals in lubricating oils and the contaminants in fuel. There are ...

Diesel engine oil additives are popular add-on layers of protection, but many of their cornerstone benefits are already engineered into base lubricants. Brian Humphrey, OEM technical liaison for Petro ...

Simple dipstick test reveals engine-killing problems in 5 seconds, spotting coolant leaks and oil contamination before ...

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 ...

As someone who's driven classic cars daily for around 15 years, as well as working on and restoring such cars throughout my education, I take vintage automotive maintenance very seriously. Many of ...

Motor oil contains chemical additives that extend how long engines can run without failure, but, despite decades of ubiquity, how such additives actually work to prevent this damage have remained a ...

When one deepwater operator was having quality control issues, Clariant developed a means of providing more quantitative answers about inhibitor chemistries. “We devised an advancement of the ...

Not all oils are created equal, and there's a new product on the market that comes with a pretty bold claim. Mobil 1 Annual Protection promises a life of 20,000 miles or one year, whichever comes ...