Marvel Mystery Oil Rocks!!

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Originally Posted By: Loogie
I was at Henry Ford Museum on Sunday, and they fired up a HUGE industrial steam engine which used an open-bath oiling system, along with those little adjustable canister McCoy oilers for many of the bearings.

It turned a 27 ton wheel!

Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIbuyEEKF8c

The engineer stated they use Marvel Mystery Oil. I know it is probably a low-stress job for the oil, but the fact that they trust it to protect the historic machine must mean something.


+1 it is a good product, even after over 80 years since it was introduced.
 
Some bottles have 1 ounce delineations on the side. I use a smaller TCW3 bottle that is marked on the side by the ounce. I refill that and then just keep that in my back tool compartment. You don't have to be that exact, I'm not going to carry a graduated cylinder with me. Actually that would be funny get out at the gas station and put on my lab goggles and gloves and pull out the glassware. I feel funny enough pouring oil in my gas tank every fillup.
 
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Originally Posted By: hofcat
+1 to diesel. I wish I could have bought the diesel Subaru Forester, 40 mpg.



Don't need no stinkin' Diesel.

Don't need no stinkin' Hybrid.

Get a Saturn SL1. A nice 4 door sedan that gets 45 MPG!!
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Originally Posted By: Footpounds
How are you guys adding this? Do you take a measuring cup to the gas station with you?

9 oz baby bottles (thank you, son :) ) Works out to 2x4.5oz refills for Isuzu, and 3x3oz for Kia.
I carry it in my utility box in the back. Cut the top off the Techron bottle and made a funnel with a cap. Keep the funnel with the tip down, and you won't have any drips from it after you used it.
I buy MMO in gallon bottles in Walmart and divvy it up in empty and dry 1 Qrt pop bottles. 1 bottle per vehicle to refill the baby bottles as needed.
 
Originally Posted By: chevrofreak
I think a Sta-Bil 32ozt bottle is about as easy as it gets.


That's the bottle with the built-in measuring container. It's so neat and sweet. Does anyone know if that type of bottle is sold empty, to be used as a measuring device? I don't have any use for Sta-Bil, and I don't want to buy it just to get the bottle!
 
Originally Posted By: johninmemphis
Empty Lucas ULC 5.25 oz bottle filled to the top with MMO for my 18 gal Volvos.


That is what I use to, those Lucas 5.25 oz bottles are great to use, I have mine marked off with a magic marker, from 1 ounce to 5 ounces.
 
The 5.25oz lucas bottles work perfect for the wifes axiom and navi. I use 12oz plastic pepsi bottles for my PSD w/30gal tank.
 
The only deals I saw on gallons of MMO was in Wal Mart, and not every Wal Mart sells it by the gallon. I hope you find it.
 
Every time I'm south of the border I can only find the smaller size... Wish all the places in Buffalo carried the Gallon size.
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I just saw a gallon for $15 at a Kragen here in L.A. This is the first time I saw MMO in that size, so I don't know if it's a good price or not.
 
does MMO offer upper cylinder lubrication? Seems it does.

For one thing, I want to quieten down a fuel pump-if posssible. Going to try some at a rate of 4 oz per 10 gallons of gas.

BTW, I tried Lucas ULC but not sure it did anything at all. FP seems to make car smoother. However, the cost is too much for me.
 
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Originally Posted By: Russell
does MMO offer upper cylinder lubrication? Seems it does.

For one thing, I want to quieten down a fuel pump-if posssible. Going to try some at a rate of 4 oz per 10 gallons of gas.

BTW, I tried Lucas ULC but not sure it did anything at all. FP seems to make car smoother. However, the cost is too much for me.


MMO does offer upper cylinder lubrication, I would suggest using a good fuel system cleaner like Redline and then going to the MMO.

The other thing I tell people is to make sure you fill up your gas tank when the fuel gauge is reading 1/4 a tank, the reason is that the gas in your tank cools the fuel pump, if its in your tank, if the fuel level gets to low then the fuel pump can get hot and you do not want the fuel pump sucking gas at the bottom of the tank if there is any debris at the bottom of the gas tank.
 
Originally Posted By: c3po
if the fuel level gets to low then the fuel pump can get hot and you do not want the fuel pump sucking gas at the bottom of the tank if there is any debris at the bottom of the gas tank.


Please explain. I've heard this before but isn't the fuel pump sucking fuel from the bottom of the tank regardless of its level? Seems to me that if there is debris at the bottom of the tank, it will get picked up even if the tank is full of gas. ????
 
Originally Posted By: Footpounds
Originally Posted By: c3po
if the fuel level gets to low then the fuel pump can get hot and you do not want the fuel pump sucking gas at the bottom of the tank if there is any debris at the bottom of the gas tank.


Please explain. I've heard this before but isn't the fuel pump sucking fuel from the bottom of the tank regardless of its level? Seems to me that if there is debris at the bottom of the tank, it will get picked up even if the tank is full of gas. ????


I believe you may be correct with your statement, I am just going by what I have heard to, but I do believe that if the fuel level gets to low that the fuel pump can get hot and this can lead to problems, that's why I gas up when my gauge says 1/4th of a tank of gas.
 
Originally Posted By: demarpaint
The only deals I saw on gallons of MMO was in Wal Mart, and not every Wal Mart sells it by the gallon. I hope you find it.


Yeah, none of my Wally's have it...
 
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