[AT] oil pressure

[Mike Sloane]

I had forgotten about that! When I was in the "foreign" car fixing 
business back in the early 1960s, we always used STP on the main and con 
rod bearings. I didn't even know there was was such a thing as "assembly 
grease" until I saw it by accident at an auto parts store. It seems to 
me that STP used to have an ad on TV where they drained all the oil out 
of two cars, one with STP in it and one without, and then ran them 
around a track. Of course the one without STP froze up after a couple of 
laps, but the STP equipped car just kept going. I don't know if anyone I 
knew really believed the ad and was willing to try running their car 
that way, but it looked good. The salesman who came around and sold us a 
display rack of the stuff would dip a screwdriver into the STP and 
challenge us to wipe it off. And it was very difficult to do - the stuff 
really sticks to metal.

Mike

Richard Fink Sr wrote:
> I had any other experience with it that amazed me. I was rebuilding a 
> ford 391 engine and always  wipe bearing surface with it. When i put 
> that engine together it was with a rebuild oil pump and could not get 
> any oil pressure it was run about 15 minutes different times trying to 
> get the pump working. No luck got a new one from ford and problem fixed, 
> I think that film saved the lower end did not have and other problems 
> with it.
> Just my 02$ worth
> Good luck don't think it will help oil pressure but will cut down ware.
> I have a ford custom van 1986 with 200 thousand on it and it still has 
> good oil pressure.
> But you know what they say For Old Retired Drivers
> R Fink

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