Smokey Joe Jimny Chimney

helijohn wrote: I mentioned this in a "What did you do to your Jimny today post" but I want to spread the word.
I got my Jimny last year, drove it back from London no problems, rans as sweet as a nut and was doing a fair lick to get home as you do.

The next day I fired it up and smoke.........yes, like a Wild West steam loco. It would clear and took about 5 seconds but every cold start saw the same. It was OK on restarts within an hour or so. Otherwise palls of smoke wafting around, so embarrassing. I concluded it was naff valve seals but funny it didn't smoke when I was test driving it. Clever seller.

I tried a number of dodges like certain oils - thick thin, youname it, several oil changes, certain additives about four in all, parking on a slope, running it low on oil etc.

Even so I had it MoT'd a few months later and it passed.

Then this was mentioned to me on my forum as having good results and I bought some. The instructions said to drive the car for an hour after pouring it in and I don't do 5 minute trips let alone 60.
Weeks later after buying it one day I had to do a 20 min drive so I poured it in and it was like adding a few Vodkas bur WOW, it worked. Next day no smoke. Miracle.
It's months later and still (touch wood) no smoke.

Good stuff mate, mine's a non-smoker lol but I've been meaning to ask how you were getting on with it after your initial post.

markyp2000 wrote: How the hell is it going to block an oil gallary it soffens up hard oil seals and not all of us can aford to relace/rebuild the engine me i just cant be assed to do ither and what makes an engine smoke not a lot realy

With respect if this and other things like it were such an amazing idea then they would be included in the service schedule from the manufacturer would they not?

I can see how it can work in some circumstances. Oil galleries are not so small that they will get blocked by this stuff.

It clearly has a property in it that softens hardened rubber, hence the hardened valve stem seals that were no longer sealing due to being hard are now soft enough that they seal again. Like Mark says.

The same happens with crank shaft oil seals and rubber gaskets.

It must have another property within it that blocks very small holes too on non moving parts, like gaskets.

If you have an old engine, you have little to lose as far as I can see, other than the price of the stuff if it doesn't work in your circumstances.

Thanks for sharing John.

Kirkynut

11/60 wrote: I hate to be a downer but the smoke was the engine trying to tell you something was wrong and needed replacement or reconditioning. ......... Engines are precision machines and are not designed to have sticky goo poured In them. You will regret your cheap fix snake oil when you need a new engine.

OK, here's the thing.

First the stuff was literally like Vodka, it poured in like I was pouring out a couple of triple Vodkas. Sticky - not at all - it caught me out as it poured out fast like water..........well like Vodka. :laugh: Other additives have taken ages to pour, boring me to death in the process.

Second, the smoking may be a sign that something isn't right but ask yourself what are the choices?? If it is the valve seals and I am so sure it is I will fry up and eat the exhaust pipe if it ain't then it's a head off or engine swap to cure. The motor itself ran fine, used no significant amount oil cos I checked so I don't really want a new engine and all that entails just yet. It doesn't take much dripping overnight in the engine to cause a pall of smoke. I prefer not to mess with something that is running fine.


Third, my motor is at 100,000 miles. I was considering having to spend £400 on getting it sorted so if it goes bang next year I'll get on with it.


Fourth, I believe in additives as a fix. Some stuff is just hopeless like rad weld. I use K-seal and love it but many decry it. Won't stop me.

Fifth, the stuff has been in for a good while now so I would have thought any side effects would have manifested themselves. I admit this motor spends a lot of its time standing and the longer it stood the smokier it was and that's defo gone.

Sixth, what a relief not polluting the neighbours with smoke like a coal fired electricity generating station. I'd have paid double for that.

Seventh, it might have been something else - I did suspect piston ring wear though the symptoms didn't really fit as the smoking was never evident on hard acceleration and so forth - and this stuff aids that too.

Finally, I don't do a lot of miles so at £12 this is cost effective. I can forget about it now and just park up at the supermarket in the open with no fear of embarrassing restarts. If the motor blows up in a few months so be it, the damn thing was going to have to have hundreds spent on it anyway.

I will say it is entirely up to individual people if they want to use it. I went by the fact this has good reviews and gave it a whirl, you don't have to obviously. :whistle:

Pleased it worked out for you mate I've had good results on other applications in the past with Forte Seal Conditioner - probably the same sort of thing; a thin watery chemical that revitalises seals and clogs nothing

Forte lol wast of time iv used that stuff for 6 years at work and never seen any benifit i my self use stuff made by tunap and saw results within a few days