Originally Posted By: Oilgal
No offense intended in any way tackleberry, but I wonder if you are in any way involved, in the manufacture sale or distribution of Marvel Mystery Oil. Are you so involved tackleberry?
I ask, because as you yourself have just said, MMO hasn't change since 1923. That is just great. But engines certainly have changed a great deal since then. The seal material, tolerances and even the metals used in engines, have all changed since MMO was developed, according to you in 1923, and of course so has motor oil also changed a great deal.
So I just don't understand why, you are so chauvinistic about MMO and so resistant to new tech, like ARX which clearly is both much safer and more effective.
Nope.........never sold it myself. I pay $3.34 per quart at Wally World just like everyone else would. As you know, I am trying ARX in the miss's civic now. I kinda look at it like this....If it ain't broke don't fix it. In other words, if someone has used a product for years and it has been used by close friends for generations and it has always worked for them, then why switch to something else that may not work? I'm not saying that ARX does not or will not work for me, after all, that's why I am giving it a chance. IMO, MMO has proven to me and other engine mechanics, time and time again to work in every application I have ever used it in. Everything from unseizing a boat motor to removing some varnish and deposits from engines. I know ARX and MMO are 2 different products and people on here highly endorse ARX, that’s one reason why I am trying it. It would be like someone using ARX for years and it always worked for them, then someone comes along with another product that is suppose to be "safer and better" than the product they have always used, that person would be hesitant in changing something that has always worked.
I know oils have changed a lot. Just look at QS for example. In the past, I would not recommend it to anyone to use even in their push mower, because it USE to sludge up engines badly, now it is not bad oil. Also, people say that “additives” are not really needed in today’s engines because of the “great” oils we have today. Well, even Frank recommends the use of a 3oz ARX maintance dose in the crankcase to maintane the “cleanness” of the engine. If oils are so great today, this would not be needed. You may need to add something in the fuel to clean the injector tips from time to time, but even then, the gas is suppose to be better now-a-days too, so why does anyone ever need to add anything? Oil/gas is “better” today compared to what it was, but it’s still not perfect.
Other people say MMO will hurt the “sensitive emissions equipment” in today’s cars. All I have to say to that is, I have been using MMO in EVERY tank of gas in my 02 Tundra since the day I drove it off the lot, and I have never had any problem with it in the fuel either.
Oh yea, and no offense taken