Main Bearing

ZDDP Engine Oil - The Zinc Factor

Mechanism oil seems so simple. It's slippery. It keeps metal parts from fusing together. It's messy, uncommonly when it has been squeezed, slung, and sprayed around the inside of a hot engine for thousands of miles. And after it has been backing bowels an engine for a few thousand miles, it seems dirty, worn out, and prepare for disposal. But engine oil never wears out. It gets contaminated from combustion byproducts and it loses its additives to tension and pressure, which is why it must be changed from time to time. Otherwise, oil lasts essentially forever.

Oil is your engine's life blood. Not only is oil a lubricant, it is also a coolant as it transfers tremendous amounts of fieriness because it is in direct contact with the hottest components in your engine. Main, rod, and cam bearing gazette temperatures can run upward of 400 degrees in normal FBI. Conventional engine oil begins to break down around 260 degrees (false oil is good up to 300 degrees). Above 300 degrees, locomotive oil begins to cook and stops being an effective lubricant. Oil survives the uncompromising heat because it keeps moving, getting rid of heat as it flows. This is why strictly speaking bearing journal clearances are crucial to engine survival. Oil must keep pathetic in order to both lubricate and transfer destructive heat.

Source: Mustang Monthly Magazine