And with the standards oils have to meet now.... SN, GF-5, Dexos, VW, MB, CJ-4, etc, etc, etc, on down the line, to think that they need something else in them that Forrest Lucas cooked up in warehouse seems strange. But man, he sure has developed a dedicated following. No one has yet proven to me that it helps that much, if any. I have seen lots of commercial truck engines go well beyond 1 million miles without major repairs without LOS in them. But folks that do use it want to be able to justify their choice, so they will claim their engine went to some extreme length of time because of LOS in them, yet for every one of those claims you can find as many examples of engines that did the same thing just on regular oil with no LOS. I took a Cummins N-14 to 1.4 million miles, sold it, and it went right to work for the next guy, and it never got LOS at any time. Just a Kendall 15w40 and 30,000 mile oil changes. All I ever had to do to that motor was one injector and a accessory drive seal.
To be fair to Lucas and not totally shoot him down, I have heard of many positive stories from die hards and skeptic alike regarding his fuel injector cleaner stuff. I am partial to his 5th wheel lube also. So not everything Lucas puts in a bottle is snake oil.