Date:         Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:31:23 -0600
Reply-To:     Eckie Prater <Eckie@PRATER.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Eckie Prater <Eckie@PRATER.COM>
Subject:      Re: Fuel additives...Friday
Comments: To: "Robert A. Alexander" <satcong@VOL.COM>
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Hey crazy Bob,
I used to do that water thing with an old 2-cycle outboard motor.
We would use av-gas mixed with the oil.  Ran like hell.  Every winter we
would put new valves in it.
Did that water thing with on old VW back in the sixties.
I'll try Everclear sometime.
Maybe in the lawnmower.
Eck
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert A. Alexander <satcong@VOL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: Fuel additives...Friday


>Vic - I used to pour water down my '74 van's Weber carb whilst revving
>the hell out of it to break up gunk on the valves/in the combustion
>chamber.  Once I got this water-cooled, FI, bastardized VW, though, it
>just wouldn't work!
>
>Did find out that, every six months, squirting 1-2 fifths of Everclear
>($12.70/fifth locally) through the quick-connect nipple my mechanic
>installed on the throttle valve housing on my '85 whilst revving the
>hell out it seems to have much better results than water in the old
>air-cooled!  Great clouds of particulate stuff flies out the exhaust,
>the van runs much better afterwards and I can stand 15-20 behind the van
>and feel those neat exhaust gas "pulses" in my face.
>
>Once a year, I dump a quart of kerosene into the sump and run it about
>100 miles up and down the highway at high speed and then change the oil
>& filter.  The filter averages about 10oz more in weight than during
>normal oil changes.
>
>BOB - WA4RRN
>'85GL - "BOURGEOIS"
>cpyrite1999
>