Date:         Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:41:15 -0800
Reply-To:     Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Oil is Killing our Cars? PTFE
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0702231450140.24914@kenneke.com>
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Suppose now that you develop a head leak on your
wasserboxer.

Bar's Leak will stop ot for a while. Then , the
leaking comes back, you add more Bar's Leaks and
more Bar's Leaks until one day BAM your head
blows out totally.

The you take apart the engine , and find that the
thermostat housing was melting(2.1 WBX).

You find a ball of Bar's Leaks that formed a ball
below the thermostat port, blocking it, which
caused the left side head to overheat and blow
out the gasket.

This is what I found on a engine that had blown.

Bar's Leaks and other products with suspended
solids may work for a while,  but the
auccumulation may coagulate in to a ball blocking
water and oil passages.

Or the solvent properties dislodge sludge or
cause seals to leak.

Oil companies learned that the hard way when they
marketed Arco Graphite.

What were they thinking? That graphite is slick
so it reduces friction. But the downside was that
graphite is a solid, and it's ability to
penetrate made engines leak like a seive,
inlcuding my motorcycle engine.

Robert

1982 Westfalia










--- jon <jon@KENNEKE.COM> wrote:

> Geza hit it on the head. I love looking at (and
> occasionally buying) snake
> oil. I've tried just about everything just to
> inflict pain on myself and
> my engines. ;) Actually, I have played around
> with snake oil in engines
> that I know are about to die. On some engines,
> the snake oil hastened the
> demise, on others, the junk extended engine's
> miserable life.
>
> Now, there are some products that *do* work,
> like almost everything that
> Bars Leaks sells. We have talked a lot on the
> list about how effective the
> radiator stuff is, but their engine stop leak
> works like a champ. And here
> is my story:
>
> Someone gave us a riding lawnmower recently.
> Some DPO had the carb all
> messed up. As folks know, small engines need
> (among other things) choke
> and/or prime to start. It had neither. That's
> why it was "not running".
> So, I put good fuel in the tank, put my thumb
> over the intake (tiny carb),
> and it started right up. So, I installed the
> proper carb/air filter assy.
> Run like a champ now.
>
> The oil looked like ink, so I added some
> MMO-type stuff to clean the gunk
> out before changing the oil. Bad idea, since
> the MMOish stuff did it's job
> nicely, removed the gunk, and caused the lower
> seal to leak. I didn't need
> to drain the oil after that, since it all
> leaked out, and on to our patio.
> ;(
>
> Being that I wanted to keep the mower as "free"
> (low cost) as possible, I
> didn't want to replace the lower seal. So, I
> dumped some Bars Leak Engine
> Stop leak in, and in a day or two, it stopped
> leaking. ;) Hasn't leaked
> since.
>
> The Bars people should give me $$$, or at least
> free stuff since I've
> given them such good reviews. ;)
>
> I'll tell my tales of the "engine overhaul"
> pellets that JC Whitney used
> to sell some time.
>
> Jon
>
>
> > I personally am a lover of all those snake
> oil elixirs on the FLAPS shelves,
> > not for the logic but the voodoo of it. Do
> they work? Most of them, hell no.
> > But they allow you to dream a little bit, and
> that's what it's all about,
> > right? Otherwise, what would we be doing
> driving these old hippy vans anyway?
> >
>




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