Flashlube Automatic Lubrication Kit

[hans1977]

Hi,

Have any of you had a closer look at Flashlube:

http://www.flashlube.com.au/en/valvesaverkit/index.html

?

It looks like a good idea from what is told on their website, of course, but is it actually a good idea to fit it?

I went to a gas installation place to ask, just to be told what a piece of crap it is, but i managed to figure out that they had only tried with 2-stroke oil. The problem, they said, was that it would make the valves and spark plugs dirty.

I think the problem might be that they haven't actually used the proper lubricant. Would this thing be a good thing to use, for a car running on gas, provided that the proper lubricant is used?

/Hans

[sysmaster]

Hi,

Have any of you had a closer look at Flashlube:

http://www.flashlube.com.au/en/valvesaverkit/index.html

?

It looks like a good idea from what is told on their website, of course, but is it actually a good idea to fit it?

I went to a gas installation place to ask, just to be told what a piece of crap it is, but i managed to figure out that they had only tried with 2-stroke oil. The problem, they said, was that it would make the valves and spark plugs dirty.

I think the problem might be that they haven't actually used the proper lubricant. Would this thing be a good thing to use, for a car running on gas, provided that the proper lubricant is used?

/Hans

Good question, maybe you should visit some EU websites on LPG conversions, to read that it is becoming

a bit of a standard over there.

Anyway, the guy's that installed my LPG, added the Flashlube thing automatically.

And told me that I could use the 2-stoke oil for it as an alternative for the original lube.

(when they filled mine up with oil, it did not come in the original bottle...so it might have been 2T already)

About the statement that it would make valves and sparkplugs dirty, possible, but did they set the drip-rate correctly, purpose is that only a tiny amount of oil is added to the airflow, so to much will certainly make things dirty.

Before I had my LPG installation done, I spend a lot of time researching the issue, also because my car has it's own issues with the placement of the gastank (Chevy Zafira, 7 seater, the wrong installation of the gastank would have canceled the 2 extra seats), and adding the Flashlube kit was generally praised in the information I found. (sources: German Opel Zafira forum and German Autogas websites)

But, since Australia are also a highly LPG converted country, I'm sure that you might find a lot of information in AU websites there.

[hans1977]

The 2-stroke oil is black and i suspect that the car would smell like a TukTuk with that stuff in the lubricator. The Flashlube fluid is about the same color as 4-stroke oil, but i don't know what it actually is. I suspect it is a potential rip-off as the sellers might easily find something that is much cheaper, but still looks the same, to refill the containers with.

I don't know if they got the amount of lubricant wrong, but i wouldn't be surprised.

Anyway, have taken your spark plugs out for inspection yet? It would be interesting to know what they look like and for how long time they have been exposed to the lubricant.

/Hans

Hi,

Have any of you had a closer look at Flashlube:

http://www.flashlube.com.au/en/valvesaverkit/index.html

?

It looks like a good idea from what is told on their website, of course, but is it actually a good idea to fit it?

I went to a gas installation place to ask, just to be told what a piece of crap it is, but i managed to figure out that they had only tried with 2-stroke oil. The problem, they said, was that it would make the valves and spark plugs dirty.

I think the problem might be that they haven't actually used the proper lubricant. Would this thing be a good thing to use, for a car running on gas, provided that the proper lubricant is used?

/Hans

Good question, maybe you should visit some EU websites on LPG conversions, to read that it is becoming

a bit of a standard over there.

Anyway, the guy's that installed my LPG, added the Flashlube thing automatically.

And told me that I could use the 2-stoke oil for it as an alternative for the original lube.

(when they filled mine up with oil, it did not come in the original bottle...so it might have been 2T already)

About the statement that it would make valves and sparkplugs dirty, possible, but did they set the drip-rate correctly, purpose is that only a tiny amount of oil is added to the airflow, so to much will certainly make things dirty.

Before I had my LPG installation done, I spend a lot of time researching the issue, also because my car has it's own issues with the placement of the gastank (Chevy Zafira, 7 seater, the wrong installation of the gastank would have canceled the 2 extra seats), and adding the Flashlube kit was generally praised in the information I found. (sources: German Opel Zafira forum and German Autogas websites)

But, since Australia are also a highly LPG converted country, I'm sure that you might find a lot of information in AU websites there.

[sysmaster]

No, not yet, it's a bit of a hassle to get to the sparkplugs of a Chevy Ecotec engine, the sparkplugs and the ignition coils are an integrated unit, so I'll leave it up to the workshop to do it, their up for replacement

in a few hunderd KM anyway.

I'll ask them to keep them for inspection...

SM...

Anyway, have taken your spark plugs out for inspection yet? It would be interesting to know what they look like and for how long time they have been exposed to the lubricant.

/Hans

Hi,

Have any of you had a closer look at Flashlube:

http://www.flashlube.com.au/en/valvesaverkit/index.html

?

It looks like a good idea from what is told on their website, of course, but is it actually a good idea to fit it?

I went to a gas installation place to ask, just to be told what a piece of crap it is, but i managed to figure out that they had only tried with 2-stroke oil. The problem, they said, was that it would make the valves and spark plugs dirty.

I think the problem might be that they haven't actually used the proper lubricant. Would this thing be a good thing to use, for a car running on gas, provided that the proper lubricant is used?

/Hans

Good question, maybe you should visit some EU websites on LPG conversions, to read that it is becoming

a bit of a standard over there.

Anyway, the guy's that installed my LPG, added the Flashlube thing automatically.

And told me that I could use the 2-stoke oil for it as an alternative for the original lube.

(when they filled mine up with oil, it did not come in the original bottle...so it might have been 2T already)

About the statement that it would make valves and sparkplugs dirty, possible, but did they set the drip-rate correctly, purpose is that only a tiny amount of oil is added to the airflow, so to much will certainly make things dirty.

Before I had my LPG installation done, I spend a lot of time researching the issue, also because my car has it's own issues with the placement of the gastank (Chevy Zafira, 7 seater, the wrong installation of the gastank would have canceled the 2 extra seats), and adding the Flashlube kit was generally praised in the information I found. (sources: German Opel Zafira forum and German Autogas websites)

But, since Australia are also a highly LPG converted country, I'm sure that you might find a lot of information in AU websites there.

[warfie]

I'd run Castrol-R in it.... make it smell like the race bike of the olden days...