JHZR2
Staff member
Did an oil change on our 14 odyssey tonight. It is closing in on 70k miles. It is my wife’s dd, so most use is extremely short drives, a mile or two at a time. We also use it for family trips of course.
It has had the VCM disabled since maybe a thousand miles. These last two OCIs were Rotella Gas Truck 0w-20.
I was quite surprised when I opened the filler cap, to see a lot of brown colored mess in there. I could wipe that up with my finger. Further down was a beautiful consistent gold color, which I thought was maybe just oil or a thinner layer of the sludge. It was neither. It’s on there permanently. A rich golden varnish I guess.
I don’t remember either of these things before. I’ve never seen sludge in the filler, and I don’t remember it being so golden in color. I have a hard time blaming it on one or two OCIs of Rotella gas truck either though. Just surprising to see. I usually am fairly astute with these observations.
The OCIs on this van have been done by the computer, but end up around 5k miles and six months.
I still have the filter which I’ll open, and an oil sample for a UOA. I’m not sure I’m expecting much though…