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Show Page 11 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah Monday. March 20, 1372 C2 vssssM J "But the thing that really threw me was around the Recently, representatives of the Chevron Oil Company brought an automobile to Rick Warner, Salt Lake City's largest auto dealership, and asked them to examine the eryine. The car was a 1970 Ford Torino from a bakery wiih 62,099 miles on the odometer. It had been fleet, selected because maintenance records proved that after its first month of operation it had been fueled The engine hadn't with Chevron gasoline with been disassembled since leaving the factory. The Rick Warner staff broke down the engine. Then, without being offered any clue as to the actual mileage, mechanic Dick Groberg was asked to guess how many miles the engine had run. V F-3- "These guys brought this engine in here, and asked us to break it down and tell them how manv miles it. "Vf "They asked us had on it" Alii intake pOrtS.,, YOU deposits anywhere on the valves. nmi nrl qptiiqHv odq . bare metal. No deposits at ' ifc all. I ve seen deposits build " up as much as a half inch I in,there. But this was just like looking into a new 'M head. There wasn't a Ci I mechanic in the shoo who m' 41 wasn't amazed by that 1 when I showed it to them. ( "I took a rinsr off the vJ top of one of the pistons. On an engine with a lot of mileage on it, deposits will build up there until all the clearance is gone. On this piston, no deposits. Nothing but clean bare metal. had on it just by looking at engine deposits and wear. "Well, when the mechan- - w- -" J "I sruessed between ten and twenty thousand miles. No more. I mean it just couldn't have any more miles on it. That's when they told me 62,000. ' u icshere started taking it apart, right away tliev thought Chevron was trying to trick us some way with a new engine. "I looked at the parts, starting with the valve guides. I've seen brand new ones with more play than "SoIwaswrong.Butyou could have orone down the line and asked anyone else and you wouldn't have found a mechanic that had ever seen that clean an engine. fTou want to know if works? Well, I didn't miss by a mile. I missed by 40,000 miles. And if I missed by that much after 25 years in this business, I've got to believe It works," one thing about F-3- F-31- those had. 1- "There wasn't hardly any wear on the valve stems, and almost no deposits anywhere on the valves. The intakes were just like new. I !i iiiiiiik Jf "The carburetor was just like a brand new one. I looked it over very carefully, down into the venturies and all over down inside. I didn't see any deposits, I just saw clean. "I looked the whole thing ove- rvalve lifters, PCV valve, "The ?a?,uuT and all the parts, and I like new.- con&nt hardly find any deposits at all. So when they asked me to eruess how many v miles this eneine had onit. how y could I have figured very many? M J i Vvit 9iW" ' wm yWll 0. -3 lit JlSt vi'F4i0 f r V IIIif . fooled me. How ny uuuuu Chevron could an engine look that good with 62,000 cleaner than any other additive in any other gasoline we know of. 1 v. ''i'-- " iiiiis:tiii in Chevron gasolines keeps i y lif Vv F3I0 vital engine parts 8for Polybulene Amine Gasoline Additive. lcP::PPf 10 'A- - J if iiiiiiitt ! I J" IS1 :ai, i nm |