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Subject:Re: Re; Marvelous Mystery Oil, and stuck rings.
From:Zoltan
Date:Fri, 15 Dec 2000 03:22:21 -0800

Hi Terry,
Thanks for taking the trouble and helping.  I will have to try your method
of filling the chambers with MMO.
But I did not check compression yet.  I thought it will be way low anyway
and I will check when the smell of oil will be gone and the car pulls
better.  And I thought probably only a leak down test would determine where
the blow by is.  Which I still have not learned how to do by not being able
to find info on it anywhere yet.
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Kay" <CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 9:20 PM
Subject: Re; Marvelous Mystery Oil, and stuck rings.

> Yo, Joltan!
> Take the spark plugs out of the engine,
> Load up each cylinder with Marvelous Mystery Oil, put the plugs back in
> the engine, let it soak for about a week.
> Pull the plugs out, and crank it a couple of turns, to avoid hydraulic
> lock, put the plugs back in, and see what happens.
> IF, and I mean IF, you have a stuck ring, this will 9 times out of ten
> free them up.
> However, how have you determined that you have a stuck ring, and not
> just a good old fashioned worn out cylinders?
> Nothing you can do, with a "miracle in a can" will replace worn out,
> gone bye, bye, metal, not even Marvelous Mystery Oil.
> You have of course, taken a compression reading on all the
> holes---right?
>
> Later,
>
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