Re: Marvelmystery oil blow up??
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Re: Marvelmystery oil blow up??




That's probably exactly what happened Neal. How long had this car been sitting? Had a similar problem with a slant 6 that had been sitting for a few years and I didn't even use the Marvel Mystery oil. Fresh detergent oil was enough to loosen up the sludge and I spun number 1 bearing.

Btw I always used to use Fram filters but after reading an oil filter test and report I'll never use them again. Turns out they're one of the worst filters on the market. I was having a problem with the 440 in my 63 Fury. Sometimes when I'd start it the oil pressure was slow coming up and the lifters would clack. Since I changed over to NAPA Gold oil filters (made by Wix) I've never had the problem again.

Dan


----- Original Message ----- From: "SB" <polecat2@xxxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 12:13 AM
Subject: RE: Marvelmystery oil blow up??




Last year my friend changed the oil on his Buick Grand National.  He
used a Fram filter.  Long story short, that filter didn't let any oil
past it.  It was somehow defective, and I've never seen an oil filter do
that before.  In your friend's case, this would never have allowed him
to go 100 miles without him hearing knocking, but perhaps the filter is
to blame?  I'm only guessing, but I'd put a new, quality oil filter on
it and start it briefly, making sure the filter has time to fill.  I'd
then remove the new filter and take a look.


neal zimmerman wrote:

any chance marvel mystery oil in a crankcase could make a motor blow
up???  A guy here i know bought an old Ford with a 289, it ran good
enough.  Upon getting it home he changed oil and filter, adding a pint
of Marvel mystery oil into crankcase and the other half of botttle into
gas tank.  The motor made it about 100 miles and  then blew( sounds like
a rod-knock to me). In that 100 miles though it ran like a top and
sounded awesome, no noises of any sort, made good power too.  I took off
the oil filter and it was not only cold, it  only had a little oil in
it.  This sounds like a plugged sump pickup to me and made me wonder if
the Marvel had "Cleaned" the engine too well, loosening up tons of
sludge and plugging the pickup?



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