Originally Posted By: Craig in Canada
Originally Posted By: Garak
If I wish to clean a part, I tend to dip it in solvent and clean it. I don't bolt it to the ceiling and fling cups of solvent at it. That might work, but it's not going to be a quick process.
Sorry, this warrants being seen twice
Thank you for making my Monday a little better.
No problem.
In any case, it's true. In my thread about my Audi valve cover gaskets, my valve cover was in the same boat. The engine is far from sludged, but the baffle and oil cap are a mess. I could run Kreen, MMO, or ARX for the next 100,000 miles and I doubt it would help that specific issue. Splash cleaning of a part designed in such a fashion cannot be expected to be a fast process. It doesn't matter whether the product works as advertised or is snake oil; it's not a feasible expectation.
The way mine is designed, I'd have enough trouble cleaning it with a parts washer or whatever else I could cobble together, let alone relying on splash lubrication to fix the problem.