Quote Originally Posted by WLIU View Post
Getting back to MMO, there are lots of parts between the fuel tank and combustion chamber that can benefit from a few of the ingredients in MMO. Valves live a very hard life and every little ingredient that can clean carbon off of the valve seat and valves is a good thing. Don't know if MMO is the right answer but I have observed that O-200, C-145 and O-300 operators have fewer of the problems that occur with the top end of those engines when they use MMO in the fuel and oil. Never understood why, but the observation is persistent and the owners of these engines that often need early cylinder work seemed to go longer before having to spend those $$.
Wes, looked like this operator had different results:

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/br...02LA181&akey=1