[s-cars] Still on 4 cylinders, some background.

[Dan DiBiase]

Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net> wrote:  
On Dec 22, 2005, at 6:00 PM, Dan DiBiase wrote:

> Us British Car guys use it in the gas tank - one can for about 8  
> gallons, then drive the car for a while. Seems to clean out gunk in  
> the intake system pretty well. Hadn't really heard about putting it  
> in the crankcase, though....

Makes sense- it's a solvent, and on an old carb'd vehicle, it would  
help with the gunk in the intake manifold.

I ran an old chainsaw (something that had been 'written off', and old  
as in "older than I am") at home off what might have been somewhere  
between 1/4 and 1/8th mix.

Nursing it along with the choke, I found after both runs a wet sooty  
slime on the case of the chainsaw around the muffler.  Looks like it  
barfed up quite a bit of carbon soot.  Mixture adjustments are way  
off, but once I have those figured out, I think it'll run better.   
Noticeable improvement in the amount of carbon on the spark plug,  
piston head, and from what little I could see of the exhaust/intake  
ports.  Rings look kinda shot though...I also don't think they're  
supposed to puff smoke out the carb :-)


  Yep, it generates a LOT of smoke - more than even a normal  MGB would! - out the tailpipe for a while, and I wouldn't stand near  the tailpipe wearing light-colored pants after it's run for a couple of  minutes! 
  
  Dan D
  '04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
  Central NJ USA