Lifter valley looks nasty... flush it?

[BillBoost37]

I didn't see that info listed anywhere. Gotcha..

 

[Kejross]

It's tough to believe that you've been changing it every 3-4K, unless you have only had the car a couple of oil changes.

That's something I wouldn't want to clean all at once. Think about how stuff drains, clogs.. gets into the pickup of the oil system. No thanks. I'd prefer to do oil changes every 2K and know that it's super clean and fresh to clean that out slowly the way it accumulated.

Thats what I said...

A series of really frequent oil changes does a pretty decent job most of the time but that **** looks serious... Really shoulda done something when it was apart honestly.

And it works pretty good if your scared to thin your oil way down with those cleaners. Just get a high detergent oil to do it with that's not an expensive synthetic.

 

[matt5112]

high mileage oil

 

[01gpgt01]

I know, but the car has been running cool since summer, too cool, which hadn't been letting the oil get hot enough. I read that this causes sludge and muck (because the vapor doesn't get out of the oil or something). The oil always drained decently, dirty but not nasty. The lifter valley surprised the heck out of me.

So to anyone who has a car running too cool for a while, beware.

Good food for thought, My car not being a daily gets alot of drives to and from the store down the block. Im gonna be sure to toss in some seafoam on mine and give it a treatment

 

[MrTube]

Personally,

If it were my engine I wouldn't put anything other then oil in it. Run good oil and a good filter and change it more often then normal. Over time it should slowly clean things out. As you mentioned keeping the proper operating temp will help things.

I'm currently going through this with an 80 year old model A engine that has never had detergent oil in it until a month ago, you think what you have is bad..........

 

[The Chad]

Personally,

If it were my engine I wouldn't put anything other then oil in it. Run good oil and a good filter and change it more often then normal. Over time it should slowly clean things out. As you mentioned keeping the proper operating temp will help things.

I'm currently going through this with an 80 year old model A engine that has never had detergent oil in it until a month ago, you think what you have is bad..........

That's what I seem to be getting from most people, so that's what I'll do. I did order Auto RX because I've read some good things about it, both on here and on the Bob Is The Oil Guy site. I'll let everyone know what happens once I get it and run it. It's a slow and supposedly safe process, takes 6k to complete. You add a bottle, run it for 3k, change oil, and then run another 3k.

 

[BillBoost37]

At the worst..it's nothig to get upset about. A nice clean engine can be found for $300-$500. :th_laugh-lol3: Sorry..lol but it's kinda funny.

 

[The Chad]

At the worst..it's nothig to get upset about. A nice clean engine can be found for $300-$500. :th_laugh-lol3: Sorry..lol but it's kinda funny.

You think the Auto RX is bad news?

 

[BillBoost37]

Came back because afterthought made me think you might take it that way. No..it's not necessarily bad. If Bob suggests it..it's probably fine.

I mean if something goes very wrong.

 

[The Chad]

Came back because afterthought made me think you might take it that way. No..it's not necessarily bad. If Bob suggests it..it's probably fine.

I mean if something goes very wrong.

I gotcha! Bob says it's good stuff, and SyntheticShield on this forum likes it too. They've seen it perform for a while. Just that some of that in there may not get out without a little help. Frequent oil changes will be going on too!

Yeah, and if worst comes to worst... I'll be asking questions about installing a new engine :th_laugh-lol3:

 

[BillBoost37]

It probably wouldn't hurt to actually drive the car. Give it some time with the road under it's wheels and it'll run even better. I've never had a constantly run, high mileage engine that ran bad.