Ecotec 1.4 Sludge

Pennzoil motor oil
travis8352 said:
You could do a couple short run rinses before running Valvoline Restore and Protect for a full OCI
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You could, but that's unnecessary cost and labor. You can go straight to Valvoline Restore and Protect with perfect safety. Just know that it might overwhelm the oil filter if the engine is really dirty and you push it to 8k-10k miles or so.

Keep the OCI's short at first and no engine is too dirty to go straight to Valvoline Restore and Protect.
 
Revving2Redline said:
That or at least the BG EPR followed by Mobil 1 Extended Performance High Mileage 5w30 with Schaeffers 132 EP. The BG 2 part flush might be more than the value of the car though.....
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Or.... 😂😂😂

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Hohn said:
You could, but that's unnecessary cost and labor. You can go straight to Valvoline Restore and Protect with perfect safety. Just know that it might overwhelm the oil filter if the engine is really dirty and you push it to 8k-10k miles or so.

Keep the OCI's short at first and no engine is too dirty to go straight to Valvoline Restore and Protect.
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I agree, I guess I was just trying to give the OP another option if hes worried about going straight to Valvoline Restore and Protect
 
Run this stuff. It will eventually clean it up inside, plus it is cheap. It will not hurt anything. Follow the directions, basically a 10% mix with your engine oil. You can run this stuff on all engines forever if you want. There is faster working stuff out there that cost a lot more, but this will work if you are patient. Here is a link.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Rislone-...7?classType=VARIANT&athbdg=L1200&from=/search
 
With that level of sludge, I would definitely do a couple of short OCIs as a “rinse” to try to flush some of that out.

My choice would be to see if the new Mobil 1 Advanced Clean is available near you. If not, I would run Mobil 1 Extended Performance.
 
jghall00 said:
So one of my kids bought a Trax with the 1.4 Ecotec. She's rather...lets say, independent, so I'm pretty hands off. But a few months ago I drove the car and the transmission was on its way out. It failed a few months later. My wife and wound up footing the bill for the replacement, so I decided I need to be more hands on with her vehicle maintenance. She has kids and needs a reliable car. I also don't want to foot the bill for any more expensive repairs. I checked the oil and found this.

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She said she uses the OLM, but I'm not sure which oil she's had in it or interval it uses. I'm thinking Valvoline Restore and Protect but I'm worried this gunk will clog the turbo oil feed line. Any thoughts on an OCI using Valvoline Restore and Protect for an engine with sludge?
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I suggest 1 OCI just using clean oil. Ideally Mobil 1 ESP. Otherwise any good synthetic high mileage oil. Then Valvoline Restore and Protect for 3-4 OCI. Then back to Mobil 1 ESP ideally. Otherwise back to any good synthetic High Mileage oil.

Also, I recommend a NAPA Gold oil filter.
 
Did anyone say add some Synthetic Marvel Mystery or transmission fluid yet?? :eek:🤪 I'm kidding. Don't do that.

If it was mine and not doing the BG Dynamic, I might consider Supertech for 500-1000 miles with solvent type flush at the end. I'd probably do that 2-3 times then start using Valvoline Restore and Protect etc.
 
cheesepuffs2 said:
Are you sure Mobil 1 Extended Performance is AN based?
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No Mobil 1 oil is "AN Based" because the AN content is quite small-- <15% as a co-base.

AN is too expensive for use as a majority base. I remember watching a tribology video where the tribologist said AN was his favorite base oil of all, even above PAO.
 
Bought a V6 Blazer S10 super cheap knowing it had been ignored and sat a while. To drain it I found pudding in the pan and made a hook from a coat hanger to pull it out of the drain hole.
Knowing that the internal parts and passages still had pudding and soft sludge on them, I just used a short OCI with Castrol High Mileage 5W-30 because it was cheap in the 5qt jug at WM. ST or any cheap synthetic would have worked for this first OCI. That cleaned/dissolved the pudding stuff. After about 500 miles with the oil looking black as Putin's heart, I changed Castrol Edge because it was always on sale. It did clean out. Got lucky, it never burned oil.
Ran it over 100k miles to 175k or so before selling it and it still didn't burn oil.
If I were to do this today, I'd do the first cheap synthetic to get the soft goop out then switch to Valvoline Restore and Protect or Mobil 1 ESP.
 
I found with my sisters 1.4 turbo sometimes a chunk of crap from inside the valve cover would end up on the end of the dipstick just like you have there. It might not be nearly as bad as you think. It very well might just be incidental debris from inside valve cover.
 
Most times when they say they follow the "OLM", that is code for they reset it a couple of times or more before addressing it if they ever do.

I went through similar with my adult age daughter. They either get it or do not and then you have to ask yourself if you want to keep being the fallback for their bad decision making or make them pay the stupid tax?
 
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