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Noted in AutoZone last weekend.
As if it weren’t already mysterious enough…
…as if the internet weren’t already overrun with wild speculation, pure ignorance, and deliberate misinformation on dinosaur vs. synthetic, pure oil vs. additives, pure fuel vs. additives…
…now we also have to contend with SMMO - Synthetic Marvel Mystery Oil?
I know you’re all wondering: what does it smell like? I don’t know. I didn’t buy it. I am still getting over the fact that the Original Gangsta product no longer seems to be available in the old timey metal cans. The newfangled plastic bottles make it feel like all the other quackery around it on the shelf.
For the record, per Moyer’s recommendation I use the old school version religiously in my A4 fuel (2 oz per 5 gallons) and it is effective at keeping my valves from sticking. Following decades of spilling its red wintergreen slippery freshness all over the decks, my trick now is to store it onboard in a carefully-relabeled StaBil bottle, which has the genius 1-oz measuring dispenser built into it. I also use StaBil on a year-round basis, in every drop of fuel that goes into my small engines.
(MMO has also been 100% effective as a rhinoceros repellent and I am not willing to take this risk with a new synthetic variant until somebody from MMI blesses it as being not only effective but superior to the original.)
As if it weren’t already mysterious enough…
…as if the internet weren’t already overrun with wild speculation, pure ignorance, and deliberate misinformation on dinosaur vs. synthetic, pure oil vs. additives, pure fuel vs. additives…
…now we also have to contend with SMMO - Synthetic Marvel Mystery Oil?
I know you’re all wondering: what does it smell like? I don’t know. I didn’t buy it. I am still getting over the fact that the Original Gangsta product no longer seems to be available in the old timey metal cans. The newfangled plastic bottles make it feel like all the other quackery around it on the shelf.
For the record, per Moyer’s recommendation I use the old school version religiously in my A4 fuel (2 oz per 5 gallons) and it is effective at keeping my valves from sticking. Following decades of spilling its red wintergreen slippery freshness all over the decks, my trick now is to store it onboard in a carefully-relabeled StaBil bottle, which has the genius 1-oz measuring dispenser built into it. I also use StaBil on a year-round basis, in every drop of fuel that goes into my small engines.
(MMO has also been 100% effective as a rhinoceros repellent and I am not willing to take this risk with a new synthetic variant until somebody from MMI blesses it as being not only effective but superior to the original.)
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