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Old 12-04-2017, 02:02 AM   #20
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Default Re: How much Marvel Mystery Oil per tank?

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Originally Posted by Crankster View Post
For upper cylinder lubrication and valves, valve guides etc, engine vacuum was used with "inverse oilers" like the Ampco unit here, Marvel made them as well. A small metered dose is mixed in with the fuel/air charge. Ampco pointed out that adding Marvel oil to the fuel may dissolve sludge or varnish in the tank and this was a better way.

http://ampcolubes.com/home/benefits
Years ago I put a NOS Ampco system on one of my vintage cars. Setting the feed rate was a massive pain in the a#*. It also had a weird feature: the MMO would actually migrate THROUGH the wall of the glass reservoir and so it was always oily. Too strange!
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