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I don't know if I would pour Coca Cola into the engine on my
Imperial to free it up, but it may be useful for other rust busting
projects.
Back around 1955, my parents had a
Speed Queen wringer washing machine & the wringer seized & wouldn't
swing around to the set tubs for rinsing. The service man came up & poured a
bottle of Coca Cola down the mast.Within minutes, the wringer was freed up
& never another problem. I most have heard my mom relate that story a
thousand times.Had I not actually seen it, I might not have believed
it.
John
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:56 PM
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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