Barry Gardner wrote:

Paul

Leaving the merits of Marvel Mystery Oil completely aside (ahem),
how could one test whether this oiler thing worked? It's
intuitively appealing to have an oiler that's driven as function
of engine vacuum/manifold pressure/load. But if the accidental
destruction of one's engine would be the likely consequence of a
failure or miscalibration, I'm a bit hesitant. (I like working on
engines but perhaps not quite THAT much.)

Assuming that one used an oil that had the best characteristics
that the cat-food-can-while-wife's-out test might determine, how
could one test for the concentration of that oil in the mixture?
I'm not a chemist or petroleum engineer. Ideas?

Barry Gardner
Wheaton, IL

One of the ways is a very careful measurement of the density of the fluid in
question.
Get a tall skinny glass beaker, put the fuel in it and float a
a long skinny cylinder of known weight. How high that cylinder sticks
out of the fluid is an indication of the density of the fluid.

Paul Lamar
 
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