I have 2002 Accord dx non-vtec auto, it has 50500 on it.Its history has been pretty good i suppose. My first 5000k since i bought it new, i change it from factory conventional to castrol gtx 5w30 till up to 12k. Then I ve been running through Hondas 5w-20. I had a engine flush using the bilstein machine that used a "safe solvent", so at that time i was under the assumption that my engine was clean. Up until maybe 25k to 30k, my engine felt sluggish. 10k miles later i stumbled on auto-rx, i added 6oz to the honda oil that i had in there after doing 3k and dirty filter so it will start doing a little cleaning. I drained the oil, then started the official auto-rx treatment. Now for the rinse phase, i ran the oil up to 6k miles instead of draining at 3k, then I switched to Mobil 1 Extended Performance 5w30. The question was that since I only saw some vible varnish, how long would it take to have a perfectly clean engine compartment with adding the 2 oz of LC? I hope the switching to full synthetic and changing the pcv valve would bring a quieter engine.
Auto-rx, Mobil 1 & LC experiment
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you said. "Up until maybe 25k to 30k, my engine felt sluggish"
have you considered other factors?
Maybe you just need a little tune-up... pcv, air filter, spark plugs, dump in a bottle cheveron techron...
have you considered other factors?
Maybe you just need a little tune-up... pcv, air filter, spark plugs, dump in a bottle cheveron techron...
even after the tune-up,and the run-rite fuel system cleaner, the engine ran alright for a couple of days,its after i put the arx in the transmission, engine and p/s that I saw a biiig improvement
I had a engine flush using the bilstein machine: I saw that used at a NAPA shop. It is suppose to get everything out.Perhaps adding a maintance dose of ARX to the Oil,Tranny& PSpump would given you what your looking for.NAPA flushes the Transmissions too so after you clean up with the ARX drain those other 2 and she ought to Purrr like a kitten.
If you use 2 onces of Lube Control per quart of oil at your initial fill and 3 onces of LC ever 1000 miles that varnish will be gone in no time flat. I would say that it could be varnish free in as little as 500 miles. Worst case would be two OCI of LC!Now I am talking about the engine surfaces not the baffle in the valve cover. It cleaned the heads on my wifes 1997 Buick 3800 in 500 miles. I had tried Auto-Rx and it did not touch the varnish. I tried MMO and it too did nothing for the varnish! THen I tried LC and bam the varnish was no longer visable on the heads after about 500 miles. Their was two years between the Auto-Rx and the LC on this engine. Their was about 6 months between the MMO and the LC on this engine!
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