Date:         Fri, 1 Dec 2006 12:25:30 -0400
Reply-To:     "Giasson, Pascal (DNR/MRN)" <Pascal.Giasson@GNB.CA>
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From:         "Giasson, Pascal (DNR/MRN)" <Pascal.Giasson@GNB.CA>
Subject:      Winterizing with marvel mystery oil
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Another camping season is over for us and I put our '84 westy away for
the winter this week.

 

I have been winterizing the motor with MMO for the last couple of years
as suggested by Stan Wilder.  This year I asked my wife to turn the
engine off after I had poured some MMO down the big rubber intake boot
so that the MMO would not burn off too much.  Well when I asked her to
shut it down the motor kept running...I could not hear her because my
head was in the engine so I asked three or four more times to turn the
engine off, louder and louder.  I finally understood that she had turned
it off after my first request...but I think she understood that I could
not hear her replies...good thing it was dark out as there was little
body language that either one of us could interpret... ;)

 

So was my engine running with the ignition off due to the heat left in
the cylinders vaporizing the MMO and then compressing the MMO gas and
self igniting?

 

Pascal