From: none@none.com99   
      
   Good Soak For Rings In an Engine That's Been Sitting A Long Time???   
      
   When I was a kid everybody said to dump a table spoon of Marvel Mystery   
   Oil down each spark plug hole amd let it set for a few days to reduce   
   the risk of cracking a ring when you start trying to move the engine.   
      
    From what I've heard and read they changed the formula of the snake oil   
   and is not so good anymore. I don't know.   
      
   Yesterday I heard a new one. Dump a mix of ATF and acetone in, and put   
   the spark plug back so the acetone will force the ATF through the rings   
   with pressure as it turns to vapor. I've never heard that one before. I   
   have some reservations.   
      
   I've got a 42 GPW (that was my dads) Jeep with a newer M38 Jeep engine   
   that eventually I'd like to sell. Its been parked for 40 years so there   
   will certainly be some tendency for the rings to stick. I'd prefer to   
   sell as is and let somebody more expert than me deal with it, but I see   
   no reason not to do little things to help that happen as time permits.   
   Eventually being able to get compression on all cylinders might help...   
   unless its bad of course.   
      
   Anyway I'd like to hear what you guys know or have heard about soaking   
   the rings in a sitting engine before trying to turn it over.   
      
      
      
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