Re: Oil Leak Sealers

[GLewis4457@domain.elided]

In a message dated 10/27/99 9:49:36 AM Central Daylight Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

> Subject: Oil leak sealers
>  
>  I was in the autoparts store the other day, and saw a bottle of stuff that 
>  was said to stop oil leaks.  As it was about as viscous as water, I 
wondered 
> 
>  how it could do anything. (Being of the old STP school of thought that a 
>  thicker oil doesn't leak or burn.)
>  
>  Does anyone have any idea how this stuff is reputed to work?  Does it hit 
> air 
>  and harden?

They're supposed to work by causing old and shrunken oil seals to swell 
up...so they say.  I have never found them to work particularly well.

Jerry in Houston

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