Hi all, the engine is toast in my '95 Odyssey (sounds like a coffee can full of marbles in a clothes dryer, lots of metal shards on the drain plug etc). I'm pretty sure at least one bearing is gone so I'm swapping the engine for a used JDM version.
I'm working at prepping the replacement and part of that is to take the intake off. Looking at the intake runners they're pretty black inside and there are little flecks of what appears to be shiny carbon. I take this to be bits of sludge that managed to make it through the PCV valve. I'm not terribly concerned though I do plan to run a few short OCIs in an attempt to clean things up internally.
So here's the question; should I re-use the original intake from an engine that I think was filled with chunks of bearing? My concern is that some of that made it through the PCV valve and into the intake.I'm leaning toward using the new one but I'm also concerned with not really being able to clean it up well enough.
Thanks!
Greg
I'm working at prepping the replacement and part of that is to take the intake off. Looking at the intake runners they're pretty black inside and there are little flecks of what appears to be shiny carbon. I take this to be bits of sludge that managed to make it through the PCV valve. I'm not terribly concerned though I do plan to run a few short OCIs in an attempt to clean things up internally.
So here's the question; should I re-use the original intake from an engine that I think was filled with chunks of bearing? My concern is that some of that made it through the PCV valve and into the intake.I'm leaning toward using the new one but I'm also concerned with not really being able to clean it up well enough.
Thanks!
Greg