I really prefer the odors from clean peanut oil over the odors from used
French fry oil whether it's peanut oil, corn oil or canola oil.
Peanut oil is jus all round more readily accepted for coating exhaust system
parts.
Somebody should be testing chain bar oil and reporting back shortly on the
excellent results.
I used hemp oil on my last Vanagon exhaust  pipes and they smelled good
enough to eat, as a matter of fact I gained several pounds after coating
them.
When I ran the engine while camping to charge my battery back the squirrels,
chipmunks, raccoons and feral cats hung around for hours panhandling for
snacks.
As much as I hated to do it; I coated my exhaust system with Ceramic and
that got rid of the varmints.

Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Goff" <THX0001@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:08 AM
Subject: Exhaust Pipe Rust Prevention

> As I have written before, coating an exhaust pipe with oil will eliminate
> rusting.  The oil has to be applied while the pipe is warm, not hot,
preferably
> as it cools down after running the car.  The guy who turned me on to this
> sprayed used hydraulic oil on the headers of his sprint car, but, after
seeing the
> rust-free cast iron pot I use for deep frying, I now recommend peanut oil.
> The more applications, the better.  After a while a deep bronze
impenetrable
> coating will become one with the pipe.  The most fastidious Vanagon owner
I know,
> The Tube Guru, has tested this on his own jewel and is now a practicing
> member of the cult.  The neat freak that he is, The Tube Guru prefers to
use a
> brush to apply the oil.
>
> George