Hi again, everyone! Wow it's been a LONG time.
OK I have a dilemna about my oil change. It's once a year, I want it to go just right. My mechanic has talked me into the BG flush with the air blow-out (he refutes the notion that blowing it out with air just makes up for not doing the change with the engine at full temp, since the additive must be put in and the engine ran for 15 mins. So it's hot. He then pulled the drain plug and went for lunch before doing the blowing out and got a substantial amount of extra oil, I think close to a litre. So I am going for it)
Won't that flush additive skew the results? Assuming it would, I want the samples without it. I'd also like to test what gets blown out, but again, without that BG flushing additive. I have done the Auto-RX thing and my engine is clean but I want to try this BG stuff for my own curiosity.
I think there are 2 likely ways this will go:
1) Drain the oil in there now, taking midstream samples. Drained oil goes to a 10X-rinsed milk jug (no water in it) in order to be re-used for about 15 mins, under 15 mins from the drain time. Blow out the oil and also get a sample of that, the rest going to the plastic milk jug. After the samples are taken, return used oil to crankcase, add the BG flush agent / solvent, idle as per BG's instructions, drain with the option of taking samples midstream and/or during the blowing out.
2) As above but do not re-use oil, that is dumb. Use fresh oil. If so, I suppose the oil in there so short a time should be fully synthetic, since it makes no sense to drain Redline, put in just any plain 'dead dino' and then replace with GC. So do I use 5 bottles Redline or GC for 15 mins? THAT seems a waste, I mean I do the annual thing in part for the environment. Plus it's $30-$40 in oil, used under a day...or should I have it in along with Auto-RX for a few months? Maybe put in fresh Redline and then GC in December?
I feel indecisive, and vacillant / vacillatory, so I am asking my BITOG community for inputs.
The oil change has me dropping off instructions after hours Monday, to be done first thing Tuesday (June 20 '06) morning, so speed would be appreciated.
THANKS IN ADVANCE!!
Rob-the-oil-nut
OK I have a dilemna about my oil change. It's once a year, I want it to go just right. My mechanic has talked me into the BG flush with the air blow-out (he refutes the notion that blowing it out with air just makes up for not doing the change with the engine at full temp, since the additive must be put in and the engine ran for 15 mins. So it's hot. He then pulled the drain plug and went for lunch before doing the blowing out and got a substantial amount of extra oil, I think close to a litre. So I am going for it)
Won't that flush additive skew the results? Assuming it would, I want the samples without it. I'd also like to test what gets blown out, but again, without that BG flushing additive. I have done the Auto-RX thing and my engine is clean but I want to try this BG stuff for my own curiosity.
I think there are 2 likely ways this will go:
1) Drain the oil in there now, taking midstream samples. Drained oil goes to a 10X-rinsed milk jug (no water in it) in order to be re-used for about 15 mins, under 15 mins from the drain time. Blow out the oil and also get a sample of that, the rest going to the plastic milk jug. After the samples are taken, return used oil to crankcase, add the BG flush agent / solvent, idle as per BG's instructions, drain with the option of taking samples midstream and/or during the blowing out.
2) As above but do not re-use oil, that is dumb. Use fresh oil. If so, I suppose the oil in there so short a time should be fully synthetic, since it makes no sense to drain Redline, put in just any plain 'dead dino' and then replace with GC. So do I use 5 bottles Redline or GC for 15 mins? THAT seems a waste, I mean I do the annual thing in part for the environment. Plus it's $30-$40 in oil, used under a day...or should I have it in along with Auto-RX for a few months? Maybe put in fresh Redline and then GC in December?
I feel indecisive, and vacillant / vacillatory, so I am asking my BITOG community for inputs.
The oil change has me dropping off instructions after hours Monday, to be done first thing Tuesday (June 20 '06) morning, so speed would be appreciated.
THANKS IN ADVANCE!!
Rob-the-oil-nut