Dura Lube
#6
05-14-2010, 10:37 PM
I'll be the first positive on this question
1983 Nissan 720, One summer many years ago I was towing my bass boat home from a local lake at the bottom of a mountain. The temp outside was in the upper 90"s.
Just as I was starting up the first of many steep inclines getting outa there, I heard a pop and the oil smoke was pluming out of the engine bay. Instantly the check oil light came on.
I got out and popped the hood, after about 10 minutes I found the source of the leak. The timing cover disintegrated at the crank seal. It was so bad I could clearly see the chain.
I was for the most part stranded. Nobody else was at the lake, no houses for miles and no phone but I did have duralube. I fired it up and decided to go for broke. I drove four miles to the top and 20 more miles to my house the engine was rattling like crazy because there was no oil left in the engine to cushin the moving parts.
The temp guage never moved from normal op temp about 180. It used to run 10 degrees warmer before I added duralube. Well, I made it into my driveway and shut the engine off. I thought to myself, it's probably locked up now. I couldn't have been more wrong,I turned the key and it fired right up.
I decided to tear the engine down to see how much damage had been done, I was amazed to find no engine wear at all. The cylinder walls were clean, the cam and crank bearings were un-scorched everything looked perfect. I decided to put it back together as-is.
I went to the junk yard and got a timing cover then stopped at napa for gaskets and oil and AF. The next weekend I had it back on the road and drove it for another 3 years, to work,hunting, some 4 wheeling and pulling the boat. I got rid of it to a friend for his 91 bronco. he knew the history and seen with his own eyes the power of duralube. From that experiance foward, I have treated everything I own that runs on gas with DL.
True Story
That is all
Just as I was starting up the first of many steep inclines getting outa there, I heard a pop and the oil smoke was pluming out of the engine bay. Instantly the check oil light came on.
I got out and popped the hood, after about 10 minutes I found the source of the leak. The timing cover disintegrated at the crank seal. It was so bad I could clearly see the chain.
I was for the most part stranded. Nobody else was at the lake, no houses for miles and no phone but I did have duralube. I fired it up and decided to go for broke. I drove four miles to the top and 20 more miles to my house the engine was rattling like crazy because there was no oil left in the engine to cushin the moving parts.
The temp guage never moved from normal op temp about 180. It used to run 10 degrees warmer before I added duralube. Well, I made it into my driveway and shut the engine off. I thought to myself, it's probably locked up now. I couldn't have been more wrong,I turned the key and it fired right up.
I decided to tear the engine down to see how much damage had been done, I was amazed to find no engine wear at all. The cylinder walls were clean, the cam and crank bearings were un-scorched everything looked perfect. I decided to put it back together as-is.
I went to the junk yard and got a timing cover then stopped at napa for gaskets and oil and AF. The next weekend I had it back on the road and drove it for another 3 years, to work,hunting, some 4 wheeling and pulling the boat. I got rid of it to a friend for his 91 bronco. he knew the history and seen with his own eyes the power of duralube. From that experiance foward, I have treated everything I own that runs on gas with DL.
True Story
That is all
#7
05-15-2010, 12:26 AM
1983 Nissan 720, One summer many years ago I was towing my bass boat home from a local lake at the bottom of a mountain. The temp outside was in the upper 90"s.
Just as I was starting up the first of many steep inclines getting outa there, I heard a pop and the oil smoke was pluming out of the engine bay. Instantly the check oil light came on.
I got out and popped the hood, after about 10 minutes I found the source of the leak. The timing cover disintegrated at the crank seal. It was so bad I could clearly see the chain.
I was for the most part stranded. Nobody else was at the lake, no houses for miles and no phone but I did have duralube. I fired it up and decided to go for broke. I drove four miles to the top and 20 more miles to my house the engine was rattling like crazy because there was no oil left in the engine to cushin the moving parts.
The temp guage never moved from normal op temp about 180. It used to run 10 degrees warmer before I added duralube. Well, I made it into my driveway and shut the engine off. I thought to myself, it's probably locked up now. I couldn't have been more wrong,I turned the key and it fired right up.
I decided to tear the engine down to see how much damage had been done, I was amazed to find no engine wear at all. The cylinder walls were clean, the cam and crank bearings were un-scorched everything looked perfect. I decided to put it back together as-is.
I went to the junk yard and got a timing cover then stopped at napa for gaskets and oil and AF. The next weekend I had it back on the road and drove it for another 3 years, to work,hunting, some 4 wheeling and pulling the boat. I got rid of it to a friend for his 91 bronco. he knew the history and seen with his own eyes the power of duralube. From that experiance foward, I have treated everything I own that runs on gas with DL.
True Story
That is all
Just as I was starting up the first of many steep inclines getting outa there, I heard a pop and the oil smoke was pluming out of the engine bay. Instantly the check oil light came on.
I got out and popped the hood, after about 10 minutes I found the source of the leak. The timing cover disintegrated at the crank seal. It was so bad I could clearly see the chain.
I was for the most part stranded. Nobody else was at the lake, no houses for miles and no phone but I did have duralube. I fired it up and decided to go for broke. I drove four miles to the top and 20 more miles to my house the engine was rattling like crazy because there was no oil left in the engine to cushin the moving parts.
The temp guage never moved from normal op temp about 180. It used to run 10 degrees warmer before I added duralube. Well, I made it into my driveway and shut the engine off. I thought to myself, it's probably locked up now. I couldn't have been more wrong,I turned the key and it fired right up.
I decided to tear the engine down to see how much damage had been done, I was amazed to find no engine wear at all. The cylinder walls were clean, the cam and crank bearings were un-scorched everything looked perfect. I decided to put it back together as-is.
I went to the junk yard and got a timing cover then stopped at napa for gaskets and oil and AF. The next weekend I had it back on the road and drove it for another 3 years, to work,hunting, some 4 wheeling and pulling the boat. I got rid of it to a friend for his 91 bronco. he knew the history and seen with his own eyes the power of duralube. From that experiance foward, I have treated everything I own that runs on gas with DL.
True Story
That is all
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