Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:41:36 GMT From: (cs) Subject: Re: Marval Mystery Oil, was: "Best method for morning warmup"
Marvel Mystery Oil is great stuff -- but not in a turbo. When I first bought my 88 9kt, I wrote to Bob Sinclair (former SAAB USA pres) about Marvel Mystery Oil (and parenthetically switching over to DOT 5 brake fluid = they used it in race cars, but you had to completely redo all lines and seals), and his reply was that SAAB had found that oil additives tended to burn and cake in the lubrication tube going to the turbo unit, causing premature turbo failure. On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:22:46 GMT, macmahonnopsamther.net (Rob MacMahon) wrote: >On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 00:20:21 -0800, Ken Washington <kenwashnopsam.net> >wrote: > >>Rob & Gretchen, >> >>Slick 50 is the last thing I would recommend to anyone, especially with >>a high mileage engine. In Oct. 93, I added Slick 50 to an oil and filter >>change of my 83 900T with 195,234 original miles...Within 2000 miles I >>was looking for a replacement engine. > >Does anyone have any opinions on marvel mystery oil? I have been using this >for about three years and I have yet to have a problem with it.