Comments on: Synthetic oil + Marvel Mystery Oil = happy lawn mower https://dfarq.homeip.net/synthetic-oil-marvel-mystery-oil-happy-lawn-mower/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=synthetic-oil-marvel-mystery-oil-happy-lawn-mower David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Thu, 22 Nov 2018 02:17:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steve Aubrey https://dfarq.homeip.net/synthetic-oil-marvel-mystery-oil-happy-lawn-mower/#comment-7127 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:48:22 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3838#comment-7127 Dave, you inspired me to keep on fighting with my mower. The Sears push mower that we bought used had quit working. My store was Autozone instead of Advance, but all the other details were the same. The big bottle of Marvel Mystery Oil, a quart of house-brand synthetic 10-W-30, and some attention to the mower. No oil drained out, though – I had apparently emptied the oil through tipping the mower over to scrape the deck. No wonder it wasn’t running. But the addition of MMO and synthetic, plus a dab of MMO in the gas tank, and it’s zooming again. It does seem smoother, but almost anything would after no oil at all.

Thanks for the post. I’m going to try the same thing on the non-starting Honda mulching mower next.

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