The Enviro-Save Metal Treatment   VS.   Oil Additives/Treatments ENVIRO-SAVE METAL TREATMENT is a resin type metal treatment, and uses the lubricant and also fuel in case of an engine as the carrier medium to distribute the Enviro-Save treatment. Results of comparative tests, using a bearing test machine, are invariably inferior because the effect of the treatment is only evident after a sufficient impregnation period. When the impregnation running time is afforded to the piece the load carrying ability is generally superior to that obtained from oil additives/treatments.

Dangers of Oil Additives   MOST OIL ADDITIVES/TREATMENTS, WHILE PRODUCING AN UNDISPUTED BENEFIT, CAN ALSO CREATE NEGATIVE RESULTS CAUSED BY THE ADDITIVE INGREDIENT ITSELF. Oil additives usually come under the classifications of:   1. CHLORIDES   Oil blended with chlorine compounds show an increase in film strength. It is common for those selling chlorine based oil additives to demonstrate the high film strength on the TIMKEN or similar bearing test machine. However, the most stable of chlorine compounds, when burned on cylinder surfaces or piston tops, FORM HYDROCHLORIC ACID WHICH IS CORROSIVE. It is also known that chlorides add to oil drag!   2. SULFUR COMPOUNDS   These enhance film strength. However, in high temperatures and in the presence of moisture they can brake down, causing corrosion and high resistance in motion   3. PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS   They also likewise break down with the result being corrosive phosphorous acid.   4. NITROGEN COMPOUNDS   At elevated temperatures the oil film will break and the bearings seize. Invariably, the presence of the above materials, which increase the extreme pressure (E.P.) qualities of lubricants, also cause it to have HIGH DRAG and produce BEARING FATIGUE. Therefore, some additives / treatments which are common in use could produce relatively RAPID ENGINE/COMPONENT DETERIORATION.   5. METAL TREATMENTS   A true metal treatment treats the metal only and does not change the characteristics of oils. Some oil additives/treatments claim to be metal treatments, but the evident immediate increase in the film strength when demonstrated on a bearing testing machine, and the necessity to add it repeatedly to the lubrication system, prove that they are actually oil additives/treatments, not metal treatments, and probably fall into one of the above classifications.

 

Recent Article written and published in Sept/Oct 2002 edition of BusLINE Magazine about Metal Treatments from Enviro-Save-USA:  (Requires Adobe Reader)