Recently one of our customers reported on the rebuild of an engine.  The rebuild was done by our customer with the assistance of the owner of a high tech rebuild facility.  The engine was a high temperature high output engine.  DSX Extra had been in the engine for five service cycles.  The following information was prepared by the owner of the rebuild facility:

“From my years in the power generation industry (specializing in filtration and lubrication) I have been made very aware of the ongoing problem of varnish build up on metallic surfaces such as bearings, valves and actuators.

For a very long time, the varnish problem seemed to be an unfortunate by product of heat, oil and friction.

The cause of metallic varnish has long been known to be caused by sub micron size particles that cannot be filtered via conventional media and collect in tiny voids on any surface.

Upon dis-assembly of an engine to inspect and measure the effects of DSX Extra, the near absence of varnish was quite surprising.  While further testing is being conducted to quantify these results, preliminary findings show that DSX Extra’ fluorocarbon displaces existing varnish and inhabits the void preventing and at the same time diminishing varnish build up in high temp or high friction oil applications.”

Garry Ratliff, BSME, ASQC CMI

Mr. Lee Lippert President
DSX Equipment Technologies LLC
POBOX8766
Jacksonville, FL 32239
Re: DSX Products

Dear Lee:

I was introduced to DSX extra in 2008 in Atlanta, GA by one of your salesmen. Somehow we started talking about engines. I told him I was going to rebuild mine, although I didn’t think that I really had to, but the truck was three years old when I purchased it and had a little over 600,000 miles on it.

My truck is a 2000 Kenworth WL900 with a Cummins N14 Plus engine. It was pulling dump trucks at the time I made the purchase, was way overloaded most of the time and was getting 4.9 MPG, give
or take. At about 1,020,000 miles she started an oil leak between the head and block. I did not know what kind of driver the previous driver was, so to be safe I rebuilt the engine.

After the first 18,000 miles, I started using DSX Extra and have been doing so consistently for over 700,000 miles. The engine still runs like new. The engine, transmissions and both rears are running at or near, occasionally a bit less, than 150 Degrees. I have replaced all temperature gauges since I did not believe gears, transmission and rears could run so cool. Fuel mileage is now about 5.8 MPG to 6.1 MPG. No heat! No friction! No wear!

When I have to downshift, I have bad fuel in my system. Other than that I don’t downshift. I run the back roads in Georgia. Good roads, but hills on top of hills. I set the cruise and let it do what it does. I see about a 9.5% to 10.0% increase in MPG. I am very pleased with DSX Products.

DSX Defender II wax. At night, in the rain, if you didn’t see the rain hitting your hood you wouldn’t know it was raining. Pay attention at night, when you see some of the bugs coming at your windshield and not hitting it, amazing. Clean up time is good.

I run between 25,000 miles and 27,000 miles between oil changes and have gone as high as 30,250 mile between oil changes with no burn of the oil. The oil still has good body and is clean to the touch and no burn odor. As we have discussed, I could probably go further between oil changes but even changing from 18,000 miles is hard changing when that is what you have always done. Best of all, my truck still runs great!

Thank you for all the help over the last five years.

Joe Johnson
Leesburg, GA

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18 Feb 2012
To: Our customers
From: Lee Lippert

Ref: DSX Products and temperature reduction (Arrhenius Rate Rule)

The Arrhenius Rate Rule states that for every 18 Deg F (10 Deg C) increase in oil temperature, oil life is cut in half. Conversely, the reduction in temperature of 18 Deg F essentially doubles the life of the oil. A reduction in temperature of36 Deg F doubles the life of the lubricant yet again. Basically this is an indication of the effect of temperature on the rate of lubricant degradation. Technically, heat increases the collision rate of molecules and the activation energy of the reaction. Furthermore, the presence of contaminants such as water and metal particles in the lubricant can speed up the process, increasing the energy activation. The baseline for these calculations seems to be above 150 Deg F according to some published data and higher with other data. The end result in all cases we researched seems to be similar.

What is the relationship between the DSX products, temperature reduction and the useful life of lubricants?

One of our customers reported a temperature reduction of 20 Deg F in the drive axles of the truck he drives- an ’07 Peterbilt with an ’06 CAT C15 engine after adding our DSX Extra to the gear lube. Details are available as to application. Based on that information he applied enough DSX Extra to the transmission fluid and engine oil until he reached 20 Deg F temperature reduction. All of his trucks have temperature gauges. In all cases, he applied DSX Extra until the temperature reduction of 20 Deg F was attained in engine, transmission and drive axles. There is/was no specific reason as to the use of 20 Deg F as the guideline. Recently he changed the transmission fluid because he thought it a good idea since he normally changed transmission fluid 125,000 miles earlier. He reported the used transmission fluid had minimal discoloration and no odor. He volunteered that he could easily have gone another 100,000 miles or more. The
trucks owned by this customer have more than 500,000 miles with DSX Extra. Today his lubricant temperature for drive axles and transmission is 150 Deg F to 155 Deg F.

Another customer started with DSX Extra in the engine and gradually applied it to the transmission and drive axles. He has approximately 700,000 miles of experience with DSX Extra. This customer observed his temperature gauges were not moving, or barely moving, so he thought they may have failed. He had them checked at the service center he has used for years. The temperature gauges are working fine. This suggests temperature reduction in excess of 30 Deg F. In this case, the customer changed oil at 18,000 miles when he started with DSX Extra. Based on oil analyses, feel, look and smell he now changes oil at 35,000 miles but thinks he could go much further.

These customers work in different parts of the country with different trucks and different power set ups. They have two things in common; (1) they both use DSX Extra and have for years and
many miles and (2) they both have temperature gauges. Admittedly, this is a small population. However, finding trucks with temperature gauges is not always easy.