Topic: wrapping chain with tape?

[Terry in Australia]

Duckhams chain guard was a great product, I used it on my K1 and Z900 for years and never had a problem with it. I wish I could buy it now.

[Don R]

 We used STP

I have used STP in a pie pan on a hot plate in the shop. I’m sure that treatment was good for the chain, but it smelled up the shop pretty bad. I only did it once or twice.

 We always used STP mixed 50/50 with Valvoline 30W as an engine assembly lube. My Mom sold Dad's old tractor and the guy rummaging for parts knocked over an opened can of STP, over a period of months it spread all over the work bench. I remember using a putty knife to peel it up and return it to a can, then washing it and all of the tools it touched with gas. Later I found the tractor brackets he wanted to find and sent them to him.

[HondaMan]

When I was in college, one of the frat guys gave me a [car] ride to Chicago, along with 4 other guys - each one paid $10 to cover the gas for both trips there and back(!). It was in a 1959 Chevy 4-door sedan with the straight 6 (230 CID?) and over 300k miles on it. The day before the trip he changed the oil but used 4 cans of STP (8 ounces then) to make up the last quart. When he started up it stopped smoking after about 10 minutes: when we were on the return trip he gunned it down a freeway onramp and it made a Kawasaki 500 envious. When he saw it in his mirror he just said, "Well, there goes all the STP," and explained that if he hadn't done that run he could get 2000 miles before a quart of oil would be needed, but once that happened it would smoke all the way home - which it did: it used up 2 quarts of oil on the return trip - of 168 miles. Didn't leak a drop, though!

[Terry in Australia]

The main bearings in my old Chrysler “Fireball” 318 were pretty worn so I used to run 90 weight diff oil in the engine. It still smoked but would happily do 100 MPH. I wish I still had it.