Snake Oil!

motorpirate said
No,dont misunderstand me,I have no experience with "Seafoam"
But breaking loose all the sludge in a sludged up engine with anything can be disaterous!!! I just changed the oil in a customers comanche pu(so sludged up nothing came out when the drain plug was removed...Had to poke a hole in the sludge covering the hole with a wire)It was towed in the next week with the bottom end out.(I told him it was a bad idea..Had not changed the oil in 6years!!)

Wow that was bad. I've seen some bad ones but that takes the cake.

Quick story. When I was 19 and working at a TV repair shop the boss had me take a small tv to a customer in his car and I noticed the lifters were ticking real loud. It was a 65 Chevy with a 283 and 138,*** miles on it. I knew they could be adjusted so I told him I could do it if he wanted. He then told me how he had never changed the oil since it was brand new. He just had the filter changed every 3,000 miles and a qt. added because as he said "oil never breaks down, just gets dirty so the filter takes all that out". I explained how the oil really did need to be changed cause it does break down and the filter couldn't remove all the contaminants but he seemed to know more even though he had never even changed the spark plug on a lawnmower. I then quickly backed out on adjusting the lifters for him cause I could only imagine how bad that engine would have looked inside. He wasn't happy when I told him that but oh well!!

Sorry to take up space with my story Ramcharger. Just thought you all might get a kick out of it.:-D