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Bon-Ami the Oil Burning Beast

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Subject: Bon-Ami the Oil Burning Beast
From: Eric <eric@erickson.on.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:01:42 +0000
While tracking down some answers for my James-Bond-like smokescreen that
is now emitting from my poor little overdriven/overfixed yellow beasty,
I hunted through the list archives (marvellous past-time, but it could
end up dominating your life if you are not careful).

I actually believe that I am looking at a crankcase ventilation
problem... I will get back to the list when I experiment with this...
but the following post from way back really intrigued me.  Did anyone
actually try this on their LBC (the thought scares me) and if so, is
their engine still running?

> Date: 06-Dec-1997 13:33:34   
> Subject: Bon ami and oil burning!!(Could be LBC} 
> I was watching Automobiles on the History channel last night and the
> show was on the '55 to '57 Chevies,one of the problems was that the 
> V8 burned oil,as much as a qt every 200 miles!The fix the company told 
> the dealers was to pour some Bon-ami down the carb!This scuffed up the
> cylinder walls and stopped the burning!If you are burning oil after a
> rebuild......Well it's up to you.
> Pat


Eric
'68MGB MkII

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