Originally posted by mad hooker
my friend told me what to do for a temperary fix. he said to throw in about a shot glass of brake fluid in with the oil. he said that it will make the oil expand and will create like a seal on the cylinder. but its only a temp fix. will that work?
Um, that is something I have always been too poor to try. Sounds like it will cost lots of money not long after that is poured in there.

There have been quite a few backyard remedies floating around. I haven't seen many fix a problem, even temporary. The brake fluid "fix" I heard pertains to oil leaks and valve stem seals. Pour it in the oil and it swells the rubber up to renew the seal. The then, already hardened rubber deteriorates away , making a bad problem worse.

If you want to drive the car that bad, without doing any motor work or swaps, Drain the oil and add one quart of "No Smoke", one quart of "Engine Restorer", and enough quarts of smokeless oil to fill it to the full mark. The cylinder that is low will most likely need an anti-fouler screwed into the plug hole before the plug. Don't start it cold, guaranteed to break the oil pump shaft or worse. And it WON'T FIX IT, just hide it a little and slow the oil consumption down. The only way to fix it is too rebuild or replace.