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Date:         Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:53:29 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Kerosene to clean out engine before oil change
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Those are the same results you get by using Motor Flush. Gunk / Siloo / Berrymans / Siloo and several others make motor flush. I like Siloo. I'd say it's a good practice if you buy an old car and you need to make a good evaluatition on what you've bought. Running the motor flush on an old dirty engine could bring it back or send it to the junk yard. Used properly it doesn't harm anything but it will open up the oil leaks and can cause engines to smoke if it removed the crud around the valve guides and piston rings.

Stan Wilder Engine Ceramics 214-352-4931 www.engineceramics.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Goff" <THX0001@AOL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 6:30 AM Subject: Re: Kerosene to clean out engine before oil change

> In a message dated 11/21/05 1:38:57 AM, eduntz@HOTMAIL.COM writes: > > << Does anyone here add kerosene before an oil change to clean it out? >> > > Ed, > > I don't have to, but I witnessed my uncle, the original motorhead "Wild Bill" > Worthington, use it to great effect. Once, Wild Bill could no longer stand > my old man's abuse of a fine automobile so he took it upon himself to change > the oil in an Olds 98 which probably hadn't seen an oil change in 30 Kmi. or, in > other words, since it was driven off the showroom floor. He mixed a 50/50 > solution of kerosene and motor oil, filled the crankcase and let the Olds idle. > After a few minutes, the Olds started to puff billows of smoke and I got > scared because I thought my ass was grass since I was part and parcel to this > debacle. Wild Bill told me to cool my tool and that everything was as it should > be. After about twenty minutes the smoking stopped, the hydraulic valves > quieted and the Olds purred. When it was drained, the once fresh oil/kerosene mix > poured out of the oil pan looking like India ink. > > George


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