Detective D
Well-Known Member
Specifically: Seafoam penetrating oil.
My recent plenum gasket repair on my Dakota required some broken bolt extraction. I discovered the 4 cans of various penetrating oil I have had laying around for 20 years were finally used up. I had:
PB Blaster
Dura-Lube
3-in-1 Penetrating Oil(not just 3-in-1, this was specific)
A can from the 1980's of some John Deere spray we bought at the dealer for the farm.
PB Blaster is fancy WD-40. Which is why the can I had lasted so long. I don't like it. It is half-*** good at multiple things and not really good at anything.
Dura-lube was discontinued 10 years ago. I kept it around to use on battery terminals, best anti corrosion/electrical connection protector I have ever used. All they make is snake oil gasoline additives etc. now. Company was bought some time back.
3-In-1 was surprisingly good. Worked as advertised. Had a spray can. Local stores didn't have any, this is what I went to town to find. Grainger has a squeeze bottle. Not sure if it is the same.
The John Deere stuff...... Black label can with the yellow JD writing. Old school, not splashed with giant logos. 1980's. Came out an amber/orange, foamed up mint green. This stuff was either enchanted by mystic arts, or dropped by a traveler from the future and made of technology we have not discovered yet. This got things to move that had rights to ever move again, and I am talking on the dairy farm, not a stuck bolt in a garage. I treasured this stuff, saved it for the most dire of needs, but all things come to an end......
So anyway, as the only thing on any shelf in town was useless PB Blaster, I had to choose another.
I bought a can of "Free All" as it had rave reviews and has been established for a long while. I have not tried it yet, I had to pick one so this will get a try next time.
I bought a can of Seafoam Penetrating oil. Brought it home, soaked the broken off bolts , waited a minute, did it again, minute, again.... then left it sit for an hour. Soaked it once more, another hour. Pizza and beer was good.
Removed broken off bolts with a vice grips. I mean not just any vice grips, a true USA old school vice grips I reserve for things like this. But a Vice grips none the less.
In any case, EZPZ the stuff WORKS. Little bit of back and forth, bolts came loose without any drama, soaked them once more and watched the threads drink the stuff right down, wait 30 seconds, spun them out. No damage.
Result: HIGHLY RECOMMEND. If you have been using WD-40 or PB Blaster as a go to, you are missing out big time. This stuff is ten times what PB Blaster could hope to be. Not magic John Deere from 40 years ago probably from the future good, but exceeded my expectations.
My recent plenum gasket repair on my Dakota required some broken bolt extraction. I discovered the 4 cans of various penetrating oil I have had laying around for 20 years were finally used up. I had:
PB Blaster
Dura-Lube
3-in-1 Penetrating Oil(not just 3-in-1, this was specific)
A can from the 1980's of some John Deere spray we bought at the dealer for the farm.
PB Blaster is fancy WD-40. Which is why the can I had lasted so long. I don't like it. It is half-*** good at multiple things and not really good at anything.
Dura-lube was discontinued 10 years ago. I kept it around to use on battery terminals, best anti corrosion/electrical connection protector I have ever used. All they make is snake oil gasoline additives etc. now. Company was bought some time back.
3-In-1 was surprisingly good. Worked as advertised. Had a spray can. Local stores didn't have any, this is what I went to town to find. Grainger has a squeeze bottle. Not sure if it is the same.
The John Deere stuff...... Black label can with the yellow JD writing. Old school, not splashed with giant logos. 1980's. Came out an amber/orange, foamed up mint green. This stuff was either enchanted by mystic arts, or dropped by a traveler from the future and made of technology we have not discovered yet. This got things to move that had rights to ever move again, and I am talking on the dairy farm, not a stuck bolt in a garage. I treasured this stuff, saved it for the most dire of needs, but all things come to an end......
So anyway, as the only thing on any shelf in town was useless PB Blaster, I had to choose another.
I bought a can of "Free All" as it had rave reviews and has been established for a long while. I have not tried it yet, I had to pick one so this will get a try next time.
I bought a can of Seafoam Penetrating oil. Brought it home, soaked the broken off bolts , waited a minute, did it again, minute, again.... then left it sit for an hour. Soaked it once more, another hour. Pizza and beer was good.
Removed broken off bolts with a vice grips. I mean not just any vice grips, a true USA old school vice grips I reserve for things like this. But a Vice grips none the less.
In any case, EZPZ the stuff WORKS. Little bit of back and forth, bolts came loose without any drama, soaked them once more and watched the threads drink the stuff right down, wait 30 seconds, spun them out. No damage.
Result: HIGHLY RECOMMEND. If you have been using WD-40 or PB Blaster as a go to, you are missing out big time. This stuff is ten times what PB Blaster could hope to be. Not magic John Deere from 40 years ago probably from the future good, but exceeded my expectations.
