ZX1 Saves EL Ford Engine

From: PeterB [mailto:] Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2012 2:57 PM To: ZX1 Aust Subject: ZX1 oil

Hi! John, Just a note to let you know that my EL Ford’s radiator light started coming on when I was driving from Moree NSW to the Gold Coast last Thursday. I thought to myself it's okay just needs a slight top-up with red coolant. Over the weekend I checked the water level and found it was very low and there was a seepage in the top radiator hose.

I had no tools and could not get the top radiator hose clamp off because it had a funny sort of nut on it. I decided to go on to Brisbane buy some cheap tools from Super Cheap Auto’s and to fix it. I was on the freeway in the third lane at peak hour traffic when the light started coming on again. The temperature gauge started to play up. Later on I noticed steam coming out from under the bonnet. I raced across three lanes of traffic and pushed myself into an offshoot on the highway while people were blowing their horn at me. Meanwhile steam was still coming out of the car. I pulled over, opened the bonnet and noticed that I had forgot to put the radiator cap back on the water canister that feeds the radiator.

There was no water in the canister and only steam coming out of the car. I put 5 L of water in the car as that's all the spare water I had, closed the bonnet and drove to the nearest garage a couple of miles down the road. I then put heaps more water in it to fill it up. I don't know why the car didn't cook. The only feasible reason I could come up with was the 350 mls of ZX1 oil that I put in it a couple of weeks earlier. When I first put the oil in I noticed a slight drop in the running temperature of the car.

Anyone that knows about six cylinder Fords is that my car should have cooked and warped the head causing the car to stop. I don't know what would have happened driving in three lanes of traffic. I do know one thing that stuff is going in my wife's Lancer as soon as I get back home. I’m not a sceptic anymore John. I am doing up a 1976 CX Citroen and will be using ZX1 grease and oil in all the components now that I know how good it is.

Thanking You Peter Buckland Moree NSW 2400