Stuck Smokey

Barnheater · May 13, 2009

Anyone ever had any luck getting stuck oil rings freed up without a teardown?

JMS/.MN · May 13, 2009

Dump in some ATF and leave it for a few days. Freed up my RC that way and got good enough compression to start.

Anonymous-0 · May 13, 2009

Rislone has claimed to be made for that for more than half a century.

Gerald J.

Goose · May 13, 2009

If it runs, take it out and work it. They might clean themselves.

I once bought a Chevy Caprice that was getting only a couple hundred miles to a quart of oil. I built up a fresh 305 and was planning on swapping engines. Meanwhile my wife started commuting 40 miles of open road every day with it. Before I had a chance to swap engines the thing quit burning oil.

Some old geezer had just been putting around town with it, and it just needed a couple thousand miles of open road to clean itself out.

JOB · May 14, 2009

I had car years ago that would foul #5 spark plug with oil, the rest of the cylinders burnt clean. The modulator valve went out in the transmission so I was sucking ATF from the transmissiom into the intake manifold. That car smoked like crazy. After I found out why it was smoking I replaced the modulator valve. The next time I changed plugs #5 burnt as clean as the rest of the plugs. Like was mentioned down below if you can run some ATF through it somehow it should free it up, worked for me, by accident.

ScottyHOMeY · May 14, 2009

Don't know how big a motor yo're talking, but I've had good luck freeing them up on 4-cylinders just splitting a can of Seafoam between the crankcase and the fuel tank. Everybody has their favorite, so Rislone and other products may do the same thing.

Steven f/AZ · May 14, 2009

Work the snot out of it a couple times. The heating and cooling cycle will break them free if they aren't totally lost...

Barnheater · May 14, 2009

Hi Scotty, it's a Moline G, 403ci 4cyl. The tractor set for years and I had to replace the heads, rocker arms, and oil filter housing because of bad rust, along with other stuff. I already had put some Seafoam in it and have been running it around, it's gotten better but it won't get very hot, I'm going to put it on the dyno this weekend and "run the snot out of it" like Steven said, I'm hoping it will straighten out. It runs really good, has great compression in all 4 cylinders about 210lbs, just getting alot of oil up past, especially in #1 & #3. I'll know more after playing on the dyno for a couple hours. Thanks to everyone for their help. Scott.

ScottyHOMeY · May 14, 2009

The old tractor motors were slow to warm up. Assuming you don't have radiator shutters, you might want to try throwing a plastic trash bag over the grill until it warms up to help her along. Going back to high school chemistry, I recall somewhere their saying that heat speeds up a chemical reaction, like the one you're hoping for between the Seafoam and the crud holding the rings.

Good luck! Let us know what you did and how you make out.

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