When I was a teen, an "Italian Tuneup" meant beating up a nigger who came into the neighborhood.
No car to work on if the niggers get in.
When I was a teen, an "Italian Tuneup" meant beating up a nigger who came into the neighborhood.
No car to work on if the niggers get in.
Up here in the sticks we always called it "blowing the carbon out".
Modern day version includes a bottle or two of Berryman's B12 fuel system cleaner in the gas tank.
Back in my day, wed put transmission fluid in the windshield washer fluid tank. Unhook the hose and run it into the carburetor.
Go to a place where a bunch of people are hanging outside. Drive up real slow. About 20 feet before you get to them, hit the windshield washer for a second. The smoke is so thick it doesn't even come apart until outside the tail pipe 10 feet.
You just cleaned the carbon and smoked out 30 teenagers waiting to get into a movie
Good times.
A buddy had an old van back in the late 1970s, we used to go to the pit parties with him (keg or beers in a remote sandpit). The cops would show up and everybody scattered. Sometimes a state trooper (the only one assigned to our area) would be chasing us in the van ... the driver would downshift into 2nd gear at high RPM, the passenger would flip the engine cover off and slowly pour a quart of engine oil down the carburetor. The smoke cloud coming out the tailpipe was so thick you couldn't see your hand in front of you and didn't disperse for at least 15 minutes. Stopped the cop in his tracks every time. We always got away!
That is filthy, man. Nice.
Burning coal for people without a coal-burning truck.
The advice I've heard is to put higher octane gasoline, which burns hotter, and to get on the freeway and go fast for a while to get the RPMs high.
I don't know if premium makes all that much difference if your car uses regular. Both have about the same amount of detergents added by the manufacturer.
Sustained highway driving with a good brand of regular (or premium) will clean out deposits, especially if the car was predominantly used for short trips or city driving (which creates deposits because the engine never gets to full operating temperature under load). Sustained highway driving at ~2000RPM in high gear allows the engine to attain operating temperature and provides a sustained load so the detergent in the fuel can do its best job on existing deposits.
I use B-12 in the gas every year or two to help to clean the whole fuel system, fuel injectors, valves and combustion chamber. There are cleaners ("detergents") mixed into regular gas by the manufacturer to prevent deposits but the B-12 boosts their concentration to do a better job to clean out existing deposits more quickly.
I try to get Top Tier gasoline(en.wikipedia.org) since it's endorsed by the various car manufacturers.
Berryman's B-12 is good stuff. Lucas additives are good as well. I've seen Marvel Mystery oil do magic and I always sub one quart of oil for Marvel. If you have an older car that is getting blow by the rings on the pistons, Engine Restore works if it's not too bad. I recommend these as I used to be a service writer at my Friend's Honda shop (that he still has)
I agree 100%! I have all of the aforementioned fluids on the shelf in my garage except Engine Restore because I don't have anything with a tired engine. I love marvel mystery oil, add it to the fuel for all of my implements to reduce fuel system corrosion from ethanol gas. And PB Blaster is the best rusty nut buster for reasonable money (Kroil is great but expensive).
Lol, I am looking at some PB Blaster I took out of the passenger side of my truck so I could take my wife somewhere.
Guy I worked with swore by routinely "red lining". Sounds like all different names for the same thing. Do you use Seafoam?
Seafoam is best for older marine 2-stroke inboards/outboards. I used to try it occasionally but didn't see much improvement in more modern no-lead/low lead 4-stroke engines. Scotty Kilmer did an episode on Sea Foam(m.youtube.com) (short version) and an rarlier video of Seafoam vs Berryman B-12 and explained how B-12 was superior for todays engines, carbureted, injected and direct injection.
A lot of people still use Seafoam, but they are wasting their money.
Good to know! Thanks for the info
Yeah seafoam in the air intake with a sprayer.
Water mist works too.
Yessir. It works 60% of the time, every time.
I was told, and still do today, try to run the car with wide open throttle for at least 20 second, every month or so. Easy to do with trucks and most passenger cars, but in high performance cars you need some open road. My last car would be north of 140mph by then. Never had any heavy maintenance in any of my cars, all were sold with over 100k on the odometer.
My grandfather had a couple of BMWs right before the speed limits changed. I think he regretted selling them, but he always said that at 55MPH they would choke themselves on carbon. You had to run them all open.
The other thing that's great about the Italian tuneup is that if you have a component that was getting close to failing, you're going to know which one it is a lot sooner.
The make it 'till you break it method of troubleshooting.
It good to do that on a diesel car that has a particle filter, especially if it mainly driven in the city. It also makes liberals cry when they see black smoke coming out as the filter gets unclogged.
and "Fiat" means "Fix It Again Tony..."
Sure does. I wonder how long before Fiat will try to sell their shit here again?
It'll be fine...
They have a brand new labor force from somalia...
Just wait once you learn what rotaries love...
Vroom vroom
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