As a further aside, I bought an old Scott-Atwater 20 HP motor from an
auction, when I was 13 or 14 years old. I put it on my 12' plywood
runabout but it was unreliable due to poor compressor. Stories and
folk lore of the day led us to belive that Bon-Ami (a cleaning
powder) could restore an engine.
We.., be damned. It did. A friend spooned almost half a small box
into the carburetor while I had it at WOT. The motor revs started
climbing and the boat got up on plane. That old O/B ran another two
season before I got a nice used Mercury 20 HP. I suspect the powder
gunked up the piston & cylinder so much to take out a bunch of clearance.
I would not recommend the practice.
Cheers, Russ
ex-Sweet 35 mk-1
At 10:14 AM 9/1/2019, you wrote:
As an aside, in high school I had a 48 Ford with a flat head V 8. I
wanted to treat it good so instead of using regular 30 weight I used
a nice detergent 10-30. The detergent cleaned the gunk out of the
bearings and engine pretty much fell apart, blowing out so much oil
that a could not see out the rear view mirror.
Tom Buscaglia
S/V Alera
1990 C&C 37+/40
Vashon WA
P 206.463.9200
C 305.409.3660
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