The strangest answer that I have heard on this today didn't come from the IML,
but a friend of mine who used to drive a bus. I had told him about some of the
posts here today during lunch. He said that one of his buddies says that "the
only way to free a stuck engine is to pour Coca Cola down the spark plug holes
and wait a couple days".
By now you are all pretty use to the kind of advice that I usually dish out, so
tonight I decided that I would try something a little different.
I guess he has a friend that did this, and the guy swears by it. He also puts a
quart or two of oil in the crank case each day before he drives his 25 mile
round trip to work. He has three old cars that he bought new (no Imperials,
although one is an old Chrysler with a 383), never changes the oil, and somehow
he keeps them all running, but they all put out clouds of smoke where ever he
goes. One of them sits for three or four months during the summer (I think it
is a '67 Galaxie with a 390), since the windows won't go down, so he can't
drive it when it is hot outside. That is when it seizes up. Due to a blown head
gasket it runs on about six out of eight, and allows water to seep into the
cylinders.
His cars may all run, or at least can be made to run, but I doubt that I would
ever consider ever buying one of them to fix up or to use. I guess people can
come up with all sorts of things to make something run if they don't much care
how it runs.
Paul
In a message dated 5/3/2004 10:43:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>
> Mikey, you make some really good points about introducing grit into the
>engine and all in the solution that I put out.
> The original question, I think, was how to avoid a complete teardown of a
>motor that is siezed. The guy got told by several here that he was facing a
>rebuild outright, which I think is pretty much what he's facing anyway.
> Short of pulling the motor out of the car for a rebuild or ring/valve job,
>which is absolutely the correctest answer, what would you do?
> Disagreeing does not make you the bad guy, and I'd be very interested in
>hearing your opinion on an alternate course of action, as I know from past
>posts that you're a competent,
> experienced mechanic.
>
> -Kenyon
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