I wouldn't touch any of this guy's cars with a ten foot pole. Coca-Cola in
the combustion chamber? Wow, I thought I'd heard everything. Does sugar in
the gas tank help mileage too? Don't even think about it. It's guys like
this that keep me in business.
Steve Miner
Miner Auto Service
Winnebago, MN
----- Original Message -----
From: <RandalPark@xxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: IML: this is a gamble and some rather poor practices
> 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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