Exactly. Me too.
Chuck,
I responded to your last post about this. What makes you think the lube was the culprit? You always hear about failures from bad lubes and every time it ends up being metal fatigue in a part or parts, improper assembly, or something else. Lube-related failures seem to be an urban legend other than the seemingly increasing cam failures do to low-zinc oils. If there was an actual problem with a batch of lube it would not be just one person who had problems, it would be hundreds, if not thousands of customers. Before I switched to Amsoil I spent tons of time checking them out and I found tons of positive reviews of their stuff and not one complaint. That is why I switched, not because of anything Amsoil had to say. Obviously, I do not know your situation but it seems to me that if they put out a bad batch of product, contaminated or whatever, you would see complaints all over the place. Yours is the only one I have ever seen. I don't mean to challenge you, it just doesn't make sense. If any company did put out lubes that trashed engines or trannys they would be put out of business because the word would get out and no one would buy their stuff. It just seems that when you have thousands of people buying and using the same product and only one of them has a problem the probability that their problem was caused by the product is just about zero.
Ah. I was looking in my '69 Plymouth service manual.
You have to excuse Ace. He HATES Amsoil for some unknown reason. To be fair I have never heard of them paying a claim but I have also never heard of anyone trying to make a claim except on this thread.
Very true. Also, how many average customers have the ability to prove that the product was faulty?
You still say it caused the problem but you don't say why you think that and what the proof was. Brand new rebuilds grenading is nothing new. If the fact that it was a "professional rebuilt to factory spec’s (With All New Parts)" is your main reason for blaming the lube you had no case at all. In fact, as Ace said, having it go so soon after the rebuild makes it even less likely that it was the lube that caused it. When I rebuild something, the first 1000 miles or so is when I am nervous about it flying apart for some reason. If you get that far the parts were good and so was the work. Parts can be bad, even professional mechanics screw up once in a while as well. It is just extremely unlikely (if not impossible) that a bad product (from any manufacturer) would cause a problem for only one customer and not hundreds or even thousands. Lubes are made in huge batches, not a couple quarts at a time. It is FAR more likely that your mechanic screwed up and blamed the lube or maybe you got a bad part. It happened to me. The clutch disc in my almost brand new '87 GLHS flew apart because of metal fatigue. Also, I bought a Mopar Performance 3.87 gearset for the same car that had the bearing journals on the intermediate shaft cut several thousanths to small. If that was not noticed and we had put it together it would not have been long before I needed a broom and mop. And a new transaxle.
