HEY GUYS

Well, after 4 hours of steady research over the past 38 hours, I have added one quart of Marvel Mystery Oil (MMO) to my oil, and one pint to my fuel.
Truck is 01 f250 v10

The recommended dose of MMO to the oil is 1 Qt of MMO to 4 qts of oil.
I added 1 qt to 5qts of oil.

I have found that the MMO is nothing but a solvent mixed with a light oil.
I have talked with a lot of pros who say adding MMO to the oil 500 miles before a change is very good for cleaning the engine.
they said to only doit every 25-30 thousand miles.

so, i put it in last night. so far so good!
I had to drain some oil from the pan, the oil looked good.(I use Royal Purple)
once i added the Qt of MMO i drove for a hour, then checked the dip stick to see the level.
to my amazment the oil was 2-3 hues darker. i checked the dip stick 3 times.

The oil and filter(mobile 1) only have 2500 miles on, so i am not worried about clogging anything during a 500 mile run with MMO



so time will tell. hopefully that ticking during the first 10 min. of driving will stop!!


I will keep you all posted. by the way, i will be useing mobile 1 extended performance for when i do the oil change with, as allways, the mobile 1 filter.

 

Great, keep us posted

 

Clean your engine? Why did you let dirt get inside your engine in the first place?

 

ur switching from RP to mobil 1?

 

the guy who had the truck before me put 60,000 miles on it plowing snow, and he used dino every 5k so i figure there is a least a little "sludge" or gum in there.


Yes i am switching from Royal Purple to Mobile 1 extended performance because my good friend showed me a test preformed from a auto tech school in CA, i forget what one, but it ranked like 10 well known oils from best to worst judging by there tests.
im not sure how they tested but the list went like this

1 was amsoil
2 was mobile one
3 was valvoline synthetic
4 was royal purple
5 was pennz platnuim
and i forget the rest of the order but Q from quaker state ranked on the bottom as well as there syntec, that was like 6 or 7.

he said there all realy good oils and there specs are very close. you would never run into a problem running any of them as long as you change it when its do.

amsoil is a pain to get, and since Mobile 1 is cheaper and according to there test better than Royal purple, i figure i would use M1 from now on.





side note, i drove around tonight for around a hour running errands, and the truck is running good. a little ruff at times, i think the MMO thinned out the 5w20 too much, so i may change the oil in 200 miles. i will play it by ear. the oil is getting much more darker though!!! so its cleaning!

 

Thats a good one

 

Update!!

Well i drove about 60 miles today running around town. the oil has become much darker, it dose not smell burnt, and the oil is not grity(guses my M1 filter is working) but the oil is much more darker.

I really think the MMO is working great.


I think from now on, i will add MMO to my oil about 200 miles before an oilchange.

I will keep you all updated

 

and if the marvel did flush out that stuff that was harmlessly hiding , stuck where ever, you ran it all through your engine. the super small stuff is circulting around and getting into the piston rings etc. i would have just run the syn oil and left the crap be. we used to use the marvel,,about a pint every 1000 miles to keep the old 37 chevy hi-perf lifters quiet. it worked. i think a quart is way to much.

 

I thank you for your concern. (not being sarcastic)




Marvel recomends useing one qt of Marvel to 4 qts of motor oil and running that for the whole time

i am useing 1 qt of Marvel to 5 Qts of motor oil, so im under the recomended dose, and im only running it for 200-500 miles, not the whole duration. again im under dose


anything big enough, to hurt my engine is being traped in the moblie one extended performance oil filter that has 1500 miles on it. anything small enough to get through the filter will not cause damage at all.

I am not concerd with clogging the filter due to the following.
1. engine only has 60,000 miles(not to dirty, if at all)
2. newer filter
3 small dose and short dose of marvel



i have thought this out well.





***UPDATE:
tonight on my way home from work i had absolutly no ticking at ALL!!!
furthermore the other ticking( that i thought was ypipe noise, i guess not!) is gone too.


now it is to early to say if these tickings are gone for good, but none tonight, i will see what happens tomorrow.

 

Udate:

today, i started up the truck with no ticking, let it warm up for 2 min. then drove to work.

the drive to work was amazing! its like im driving a new engine.

i was flooring it the whole way with a smile on my face.

i am very happy that i put the MMO in. i am pondering leaving it in there for another 500 miles once i do 200 miles.

I will keep you posted


Question, what size is the oil pan plug bolt, i want to get one with a magnet on the end, they have the sizes 1.50, 1.75, ect......
What one woul fit? i checked here, my manual, and my haynes repaire manual, NO LUCK. thanks for the help.

 

take it out and measure it. im sure the dealership could tell you or even has one for your engine

 

Where can I get Marvel Mystery Oil?

 

they sell it at walmart, autozone, strauss auto, i think pepboys

its cheap, I got a quart of it for 3 bucks!!!

 

I wonder if adding it to the fuel will help with detonation cased my carbon build up in the top end?

 

Thank you. I'm going to have to go find it now.