lastcowboy32
Well-known Member
People here in the forums use ATF for a lot of things...as penetrating oil, to loosen up rings on an old engine, etc.
I've had decent luck with it to penetrate/loosen fasteners. I still keep spray bottles of Liquid Wrench...or whatever...around; but I also have a couple of small syringes that I use to apply ATF; if I don't want to spray oil all over.
Anyway, I have two chain saws: a Poulan and a Husqvarna. One common problem that I've had with them over the years is the chain auto-oiler gumming up after a while. About once every year or two; I drop one of them off at the small engine shop; they do something vague; my oiler works again; and I give them 50 bucks.
A couple of months ago, I thought, "What if that thick bar and chain oil is just gumming up the works?"
So...I've taken to the habit of using ATF in the oiler maybe once every five or ten loads of oil.
I have to say, My oiler seems to be running cleaner and at a higher volume.
Time will tell; but I was wondering if anybody else tried a trick like this or had some logic as to why or why not this would be a good idea.
I've had decent luck with it to penetrate/loosen fasteners. I still keep spray bottles of Liquid Wrench...or whatever...around; but I also have a couple of small syringes that I use to apply ATF; if I don't want to spray oil all over.
Anyway, I have two chain saws: a Poulan and a Husqvarna. One common problem that I've had with them over the years is the chain auto-oiler gumming up after a while. About once every year or two; I drop one of them off at the small engine shop; they do something vague; my oiler works again; and I give them 50 bucks.
A couple of months ago, I thought, "What if that thick bar and chain oil is just gumming up the works?"
So...I've taken to the habit of using ATF in the oiler maybe once every five or ten loads of oil.
I have to say, My oiler seems to be running cleaner and at a higher volume.
Time will tell; but I was wondering if anybody else tried a trick like this or had some logic as to why or why not this would be a good idea.