Especially motorcycle oil used in air-cooled engines.
Especially motorcycle oil used in air-cooled engines when you’re riding through the Mohave Desert in mid-July and the red mark at the three-story high thermometer in the middle of Baker, California has topped out at 120.
Especially motorcycle oil when it’s called upon to drench drip-dried pistons and cylinder walls during a cold start after a bike’s been sitting for a few days.
Lucas Motorcycle Oil simply doesn’t fail, but that doesn’t mean adding a can of Lucas Motorcycle Oil Stabilizer to your oil bag won’t produce results you’ll feel under your butt (higher performance) and in your back pocket (better mileage.) And if you are one of the unenlightened who hasn’t yet switched to one of Lucas’ High-Performance motorcycle engine oils, adding a shot of Lucas Motorcycle Oil Stabilizer to the oil you do use might just save you from needing an engine rebuild once the weather turns hot and you’re right smack dab in the middle of riding season.
OK, here’s the 25 words or less (actually 25 words and a lot more) version of What Makes Oil Go Away For Dummies.
Both extreme heat (and for that matter extreme cold) cause all lubricating and hydraulic fluids to become unstable. (Duh … that must be why Lucas called their additive a stabilizer.) Water or other fluid-cooled motors tend to operate at a fairly constant temperature because they’re based on heat-exchange … the circulating fluid picks up heat from the exterior of the motor, cools itself off by running through a radiator and recirculates to pick up more heat. Use of thermostats and, sometimes, cooling fans normally keeps this constant temperature below that at which a good oil will start to break down.
Air-cooled engines also use heat exchanging to prevent oil breakdown … hot air is radiated away from the engine by cooling fins and exposed to and cooled by the hundreds of degrees cooler ambient air. Though usually effective, air-cooling cannot keep the oil circulating in the motor at anything like a constant temperature because of variables like the outside ambient temperature and the amount of cooling air being forced through the fins by the bike’s speed.
With an air-cooled scooter, sitting motionless at a red light or two in Baker on that 120-plus degree day can degrade the performance and life expectancy of even the best motor oils, with an average oil (say a good-quality oil intended for cars) it can lead to a catastrophic failure. As for cheapshit generic oils, don’t bother to even think about it … you wouldn’t have gotten as far into the desert as Baker no matter what direction you were riding in from.
Even when high oil temps don’t cause anything to go wrong with your motor immediately, they can significantly and permanently reduce your oil’s effectiveness and lead to increased and totally avoidable (avoidable if you use Lucas lubricants throughout your bike) engine wear. Why? For one thing, overheating destroys most of the essential “anti” — anti-wear, anti-foam, anti-rust, anti-oxidant – additives inherent in all oils that meet motorcycle manufacturers’ standards. Another insidious way that overheating compromises an oil’s future performance is by something the chemistry textbooks call “thermal decomposition of organic molecules.”
Truth is, if you want to know what that really means, you’ll have to ask somebody like a Lucas engineer. However, for our purposes, a simple definition is good enough: Oil starts to go south at lower temperatures after it has already been overheated a time or two.
“How” Lucas Motorcycle Oil Stabilizer solves all these problems is, of course, magic. Or, at least, it’s magic to anyone who hasn’t spent 25 years learning how to refine, blend, test and perfect petroleum lubricants. (For the record, the Stabilizer is an all-petroleum product and will not void your warranty when used as directed.)
“What” the Stabilizer does, on the other hand, is no secret at all. It blends with and works with your existing motor oil to control heat and wear by increasing your oil’s resistance to overheating and loss of critical surface tension with moving parts, reducing friction (friction is the number one cause of heat buildup) and raising your oil pressure under even extreme operating conditions.
But wait, as the Ginsu knife hawkers like to say, there’s more. Lucas MC Oil Stabilizer also eliminates dry starts (the major cause of MC engine wear), slows blow-by, seals worn cylinders, makes cold starts easier, extends oil life up to 50 percent (in large part by making the oil more heat resistant) and increases power and gas mileage (thanks to its friction-reducing properties.) It even works hand in hand with synthetic oil, ATF and — ready for some hi-tech laxative, anyone? — mineral oil. Just kidding, folks, the Stabilizer is absolutely not for human – or even hardcore biker – consumption. Our guts simply don’t run hot enough for it.
One last thing. If you just can’t get through the rest of the day without a Manny, Moe and Jack fix, click on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgwb-D41bQM and watch the Pep Boys tell you how great this stuff is.
