Marvel Mystery Oil?

[fastman]

I used to work Auto Retail, a lot of the old timers used to buy it. There is a lot of simular products like it. I beleive it cleans up your engine during it's use and doesn't break down like reg oil.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: amdwolfman
My rule of thumb is use anything with teflon added. What I do is melt parrafin wax in a coffee can add a teflon lubricant and soak my mountain bike chain in it . Works like a charm,no more oily pant-legs. But I always use it ( teflon additive ) in any vehicle i own. JMO

congratulations, you're screwing yourself.

 

[Pepsi90919]

PS. by adding a can of MMO you're basically saying you know more than the chemical engineers that designed the additive package in the host oil.

 

[HappyPuppy]

I used MMO for many years when I was a heavy equipment mechanic in the Operating Engineers. It is the best lubricant you can buy for your pneumatic tools. Squirt some in the air intake, point it away from you and squeeze the trigger. Repeat until the oil that gets blown out is clean.

 

[Tominator]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
I used MMO for many years when I was a heavy equipment mechanic in the Operating Engineers. It is the best lubricant you can buy for your pneumatic tools. Squirt some in the air intake, point it away from you and squeeze the trigger. Repeat until the oil that gets blown out is clean.

Hey! That's right! Thanks for the reminder as I need some oil for my air tools and was going to buy some tomorrow. I'll but some MMO instead of the stuff usually made for them.

MMO is better than WD40 for many applications and a quart will last a lot longer than whole bunch of aresol cans.

 

[trmiv]

My dad uses it on our racing engines when we store them in the offseason.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
Other than the uses like Tominator described, MMO will do your engine no good, and may in fact harm it. If your engine is in proper working order, it doesn't need any extra "upper cylinder lubrication".

That's probably true, but I still say that it isn't going to hurt anything.

But like I said, if I were really going to do that.. I would mix a high quality synthetic 2-cycle oil with my gas at an extreme ratio.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: amdwolfman
My rule of thumb is use anything with teflon added. What I do is melt parrafin wax in a coffee can add a teflon lubricant and soak my mountain bike chain in it . Works like a charm,no more oily pant-legs. But I always use it ( teflon additive ) in any vehicle i own. JMO

congratulations, you're screwing yourself.

Yes.. Do not put teflon in your engine.. It is NOT what it was meant for. DuPont does absolutely not recomend its use in Internal Combustion Engines.

 

[Soybomb]

Its a light oil but I still wonder if burning it couldn't damage the oxygen sensor and cats. I've used it before on engines going into storage, etc, but I for day to day use those would be my concerns.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Soybomb
Its a light oil but I still wonder if burning it couldn't damage the oxygen sensor and cats. I've used it before on engines going into storage, etc, but I for day to day use those would be my concerns.

Yes, I don't think it would be a very good idea to add anything that doesen't naturally burn clean to the gasoline that you put in your car.. It would probably do more harm than good. If anything, we should be removing the nasty compounds found in gasoline (like benzene.. ugh) and replace them with cleaner burning things like Ethanol. Not MTBE..

But in something like a small engine.. that doesen't have catalytic converters, or oxygen sensors... the added lubricidity would probably offset the added cost of a few sparkplugs and head gaskets, and that's assuming that it even became a problem at the extreme ratios I would use.

And I wouldn't be using MMO...

 

[StageLeft]

As mentioned here, oil that you normally add to your car has had a bunch of money thrown into making it as good as possible. A few bucks of some walmart stuff thrown in will do nothing but make it less than perfect.