GM Engine Oil Supplement ( called EOS) sometimes works.
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>Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 08:16:00 -0800 (PST)
>From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Non LSR but car question on oil and fuel additives
>To: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>, Doug
Anderson <boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com>
>Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
>
> My dad always told me that oil and fuel additives were so
much snake oil and hoopla. I believed that for many years,
until the early seventies when I worked as a part time gopher
and mechanic at a used car lot for a few months. I learned
that some of the additives really did some good. Of course,
they wouldn't rebuild a worn out engine like the TV
commercials want you to believe, but many times they would
free up stuck lifters and rings in a motor that had not been
run in a long time. I particularly had luck with two products
from CD2, one thick one that you poured in the oil, and a thin
solvent type stuff that you added half to the fuel tank and
dribbled the other half in the carburetor while the engine was
on fast idle.
>This morning I started an old motor that hadn't been run in
nearly thirty years. It fired off almost instantly (new
carburetor, fuel pump, and ignition), but of course, there was
a flury of wasps nests, spiders and mouse fur that blew out of
the pipes. It ran smoothly, but smokes quite a bit. It's a
low mileage motor, so theres a good chance that the bores,
rings, etc are in good shape, and that the smoke is coming
from either dry valve seals or stuck rings, if not both.
>Has anybody had any particular luck with oil additives or
pour through the carburetor stuff that works to loosen stuck
rings on old motors? The motor idles quietly, so the lifters
aren't stuck. I'd like to see if this thing would clean up if
I let it run for a few minutes, but I'd like to give it the
benefit of modern medicine if there's anything out there that
might work better than old CD2 (if they even make that stuff
any more).
>Skip H, are any of the products you handle designed to serve
this purpose? Anybody?
>Thanks
>Dick J
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>
Ed Van Scoy
Land Speed 1985 Corvette #128
C/GT, B/GT Record Holder
No Nitrous, No Turbo, No Blower, No Problem
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