Marvel Mystery oil .
Did you get any special crud out with the oil that the Mystery Oil
brought with it?

Stan Wilder

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:52:42 -0800 developtrust <developtrust@HOME.COM>
writes:
> Greetings everyone,
>
> Just a brief progress report to say that tightening the 4 bolts on
> my oil
> pump face plate to squeeze that gasket in a bit seems to have
> stopped the
> minor oil leak. After a few days of driving I notice no leaks. The
> top two
> bolts were very difficult to get at and without the special tool I
> made with
> the 10 degree bend in the open end 13 mm wrench to give me a little
> more
> grab I could not have done any tightening at all.
>
> Today I removed the oil with the Marvel Mystery oil added after 700
> miles
> and switched to Mobil one synthetic 15W50 oil with a stock filter.
> The next
> test will be to see if the synthetic oil leaks anywhere and if it
> makes a
> difference in MPG.
>
> That synthetic oil is surely slippery stuff. I had to wash my hands
> three
> times to get all of it cleaned off my hands.
>
> At my next oil change and after an oil analysis from www.oillab.com
> I will
> switch to the Trasko oil filter system and do another oil analysis.
>
> William Polowniak
> 1989 Vanagon GL
> 1988 Mercedes 300 SE
>
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