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RonnyB

RonnyB

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Here's a neat ad from the Jan 1953 Popular Mechanics magazine.:downtown:

It seems that changing motor oil is just a big conspiracy the oil companies came up with!
If you use the new 'LIFE-KLEEN' filter, you'll never change your oil again...just add more as needed.
The only thing that ever needs changing is the super-nifty 'MIZER-X' refill cartridge.
It may resemble a plain wad of cotton, but was surely designed by a bunch of smart guys in white
lab coats holding test tubes containing mysterious fizzing liquids.

If you have any doubts about using it, well don't worry for a second.
There's a full lifetime (uh, wait - 30 day) money back guarantee.
You don't even have to send them your destroyed engine to get your $10 back...
 

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10 bucks was a lot of money back in 1953. What did a qt of oil cost? 25 cents?
 
I had a good friend who was a darn good shade tree mechanic. He used recycled oil and rolls of toilet paper for filters in his cars and trucks. I don't recall him having any problems as result, but he could never convince me to try it.
 
I guess the oil companies conspired to snuff these guys out. They're long gone. Considering that for $9.95 you can get a decent filter at today's prices, small wonder.

Kinda wonder how much oil was absorbed by the Miser X re-fill?
 
Recycling oil has a few different meanings.

Take it out of 1 vehicle and place it in another.

Or recycle it where they filter it, clean it and add new additives to it.

My ex's version..just add it to keep it on the full mark.....


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RonnyB said:
Here's a neat ad from the Jan 1953 Popular Mechanics magazine.:downtown:

It seems that changing motor oil is just a big conspiracy the oil companies came up with!
If you use the new 'LIFE-KLEEN' filter, you'll never change your oil again...just add more as needed.
The only thing that ever needs changing is the super-nifty 'MIZER-X' refill cartridge.
It may resemble a plain wad of cotton, but was surely designed by a bunch of smart guys in white
lab coats holding test tubes containing mysterious fizzing liquids.

If you have any doubts about using it, well don't worry for a second.
There's a full lifetime (uh, wait - 30 day) money back guarantee.
You don't even have to send them your destroyed engine to get your $10 back...
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this may sound bad im 65 years old i remember my dad having a 1960 olds. he got it new changed the oil at 5000 miles then never changed it again all he would do is every 10,000 miles put a new oil filter on and used wolfshead rerefined oil when he sold the car it had 247,000 miles on it so who do you believe or what do you believe
 
When I was in college a girl I worked with dated a guy who used to have a Vega & worked at some sort of auto shop. She told me he said the Vega burned oil so bad that he just kept adding used oil that he drained out of other cars when they did oil changes on them. Don't know if he bothered to change filters or not. :-D
 
yellowdartdave said:
Recycling oil has a few different meanings.

Take it out of 1 vehicle and place it in another.

Or recycle it where they filter it, clean it and add new additives to it.

My ex's version..just add it to keep it on the full mark.....


BMW20oil20sludge1.jpg
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GOD Help it.
 
A friend of mine has a 76 Toyota Chinook, 20R. He hasn't changed the oil EVER on it, and it still seems to run strong. We drove it to Fort McMurray AB, from Vancouver Island, and all the way back, as well as plenty of other trips, and have used it as a daily driver. Oil is blacker than black inside, but the thing just keeps on going. Probably has 250,000 miles on it. And who knows the previous owners history.
 
GaryS said:
I had a good friend who was a darn good shade tree mechanic. He used recycled oil and rolls of toilet paper for filters in his cars and trucks. I don't recall him having any problems as result, but he could never convince me to try it.
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Had a buddy in high school whose entire family fleet used the Frantz oil cleaner systems with the toilet paper inserts.
I haven't thought about them in years. I was shocked when I just did a websearch and found they're still available!!!

http://www.wefilterit.com/

History:
The Frantz Filter was invented by John Frantz, of Hickman, California in the 1950's. He was a Farmer responsible for several hundred acres of land; his primary crop was Walnuts. John was a very hard working, conservative, and honorable Man. It was said that one day he had a container of used motor oil from one of his tractors and rather than throwing it away, he tried to come up with away to see if he could clean up the oil for reuse. He tried several different medias to try to clean or filter the used oil. One idea was a clean coffee filter. One day, he experimented with a standard roll of Toilet Paper.
In the beginning, they were called the "Frantz Oil Cleaner." Later on it was called the "Frantz Oil Filter." In the early 1960's, John Frantz was introduced to Skipper K. Yee who had a vast knowledge of marketing. SKY Corporation was formed and for almost 20 years, the Frantz Filters were manufactured out of Stockton, California. Frantz Filters were also designed to clean/filter other petroleum products including Transmission Fluid, Gasoline and Diesel Fuel. As SKY Corporation grew, there were thousands of Distributors and over a million Frantz Filter systems manufactured and sold throughout the United States & around the world. There was a variety of sizes and styles also available. In the late 1980's, SKY Corporation located in Stockton, California went out of business.

Here's some pics:
 

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RonnyB said:
Here's a neat ad from the Jan 1953 Popular Mechanics magazine.:downtown:

It seems that changing motor oil is just a big conspiracy the oil companies came up with!
If you use the new 'LIFE-KLEEN' filter, you'll never change your oil again...just add more as needed.
The only thing that ever needs changing is the super-nifty 'MIZER-X' refill cartridge.
It may resemble a plain wad of cotton, but was surely designed by a bunch of smart guys in white
lab coats holding test tubes containing mysterious fizzing liquids.

If you have any doubts about using it, well don't worry for a second.
There's a full lifetime (uh, wait - 30 day) money back guarantee.
You don't even have to send them your destroyed engine to get your $10 back...
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Cool ad! what year is your truck in the avatar?
 
I looked at some of the pictures they have on their website. Look at this picture of the dune buggy. They say it has a Cadillac Northstar engine. Cadillac must've pulled the engine from a Volkswagen.
 

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'64 Cuda said:
When I was in college a girl I worked with dated a guy who used to have a Vega & worked at some sort of auto shop. She told me he said the Vega burned oil so bad that he just kept adding used oil that he drained out of other cars when they did oil changes on them. Don't know if he bothered to change filters or not. :iconbigg:
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My high school car was a '59 Studebaker that had one exhaust valve stuck open. It smoked so bad some of the kids called it "The Train".
It also leaked oil so bad that I never changed it, since it needed another quart every other week. It didn't stay in the engine long enough to get dirty!
cuda65vpt said:
Cool ad! what year is your truck in the avatar?
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It's a '39 bought new by my great-grandfather. Dad's daily driver until 1976 when he caught the VW Bug fever. Been sitting outside ever since. :(
BTW, Plymouth only made trucks up to WW2.
 
Its called a bypass filter and I just remarked about them on another board, weird seeing it surface here out of the blue. Look it up and there are many models, standard equipment on Mercedes Diesels (?) Amsoil is a major player. Why not run one? Like I asked before: Filter choice...Charmin or Northern?
 
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