Re: "Top Oil"

[bearbvd@domain.elided (Greg Hermann)]

>Back in the early 60's or maybe late 50's, before most of you were
>born, I used to buy a "top oil" by the case of 24 little bottles. It
>looks like tranny fluid being kind of red and of the same consistency.
>You would pour this down the carb thereby hopefully freeing  up
>everything topside. It would smoke up a storm, but for some reason
>smelled really good. I still have several unopened bottles of the
>stuff, and if somebody were to convince me that they collected this
>kind of old stuff, I'd probably give them a full bottle.
>John H.
>----------
Another little trick along these lines--after you have done most of these
things, and have it running--put enough two-cycle oil into the gas tank to
make about a 30:1 mix when you fill the tank, and run one tank of this
through it. It'll smoke some more, but the top end will stay freer longer.

Castrol used to (may still ?) sell some stuff called Castrollo (upper
cylinder oil) which one added to the fuel (at maybe a 200:1 ratio). I
imagine this is pretty similar to what John is talking about pouring down
the carb. As long as you are not going in for a smog test, a steady diet of
a very lean mix (maybe 400:1) of good quality two stroke oil is really
quite good for an engine's life!

Regards, Greg
>
>
>Whoa!!!  Tranny fluid into the carb!!!  Wow!  That is a new one on me!
> I
>bet it smoked!!!
>
>Michael