This post is coming to you from “Mexico.” The Red Sox-Yankee game is being broadcast on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball which means it is blacked out nationally on MLB.tv. Unfortunately I don’t get ESPN, so normally I would be out of luck, but thanks to PIA I am virtually not in the United States right now.
This morning I drained out about a quart of last week’s fresh oil and poured into the Emperor’s crankcase about a quart of Marvel Mystery Oil. I had purchased it during the last century from a guy passing through town on a wagon being pulled by a mule. The can of MMO has sat on a shelf in the garage since then because the folks on the Miata Forum back then swore that adding a quart to three regular quarts of oil, running the car for 100 miles, then draining it and doing a full oil change would cure sticky hydraulic lifters. I guess I intended to use it on the ’95 Miata, but never got around to it. Never needed the trick on this car as in 1999 Mazda switched over to solid lifters.
Didn’t have time for a hundred mile drive, so I ran the car for about 5 minutes and ran it through the rev range a half dozen times. Drained the engine entirely this time. Poured the last two remaining quarts of regular 10w-30 Pennzoil from my stock into the car and ran it for a few minutes at idle with only a couple of blips of the throttle into the 4-5,000 RPM range. Drained that stuff out, changed the filter and poured in the whole gallon of the Forum recommended Shell Rotella1 T6.
Donna and I then took about a 40 mile drive around the wilds of Aiken County to really work that cleaning action around. No CEL, but I really wasn’t expecting one. It’ll happen like it did on Saturday, just rolling along on a random road.
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