by "malc" <malunspamwhite@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 28, 2008 at 08:25 PM
Keith W wrote:
> "Gary G Jones" <ggj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>> Or nice cheap Comma re-refined if the engine was old and knackered
>>> (which in the case of a 1954 Ford Popular was around 30,000 miles).
>>
>>
>> Oh yeah , forgot all about the trusted comma oil, i must admit i did
>> use that quite a bit, never had any problems with that stuff either
>> GGJ
>
> i think engines were much more forgiving in those days. I had a 1954
> Bedford CA minibus that drank oil. Every month or two the oil light
> would start to flicker and I would pour in another gallon of Comma. If
it
> hadn't been so cheap the vehicle would have had to be scrapped.
> In those days of course nobody knew anything about pollution or being
> green.
A friend of mine used to leave a drip tray under his Marina and pour the
contents back into the engine. I think it was laso his marina that had an
oil leak onto the exhaust manifold. Rather than fix the leak he diverted
one
of the washer jet pipes so it squirted onto the manifold and extinguished
the smoking oil.
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Malc
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