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Re: Dirty Oil
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Posted by Ron in Nebr on November 26, 2006 at 17:21:40 from (66.252.114.8):
In Reply to: Dirty Oil posted by James Newton on November 26, 2006 at 16:23:03:
Dropping the pan to clean the sludge out of it is ok, but like Jay mentioned below, if you start adding things to "clean" the inside of your engine you're asking for trouble unless you're willing to pull the whole thing apart and clean everything completely. Breaking up that sludge that might have been there 40+ years and allowing it to circulate through the engine isn't good. If you're not having other oil-related problems, I'd be tempted to leave well enough alone. When I was in school for auto mechanics one of our instructors told us about people who change to new brands of oil....won't name the brand, but it rhymes with "Tenzoil"....anyway, the story was that this brand of oil contained a detergent that would "clean" the inside of an engine. Supposedly when this was done the engine would self-destruct shortly afterwards due to the sludge that was broken loose clogging various passages and especially the pickup screen for the oil pump. He said that it's fine if a person wants to use that brand of oil if you start out using it when the engine's new, but it shouldn't be put in an engine that's spent it's whole life with other non-detergent brands. Disclaimer- I've never experienced this, just what I was told by a knowledgable teacher.
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