Safest flush
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Lubegard makes a product I have used many times. Good stuff IMO.
http://www.lubegard.com/automotive/engine_flush.html
http://www.lubegard.com/automotive/engine_flush.html
Does Lubegard available at So Cal autoparts store ?
Yes Napa stores usually carry their products. Also eBay is a great source for it a tad cheaper even after shipping.
An overnight soak with diesel to the oil cap sounds bad. It could leak past the rings and fill the combustion chamber.
Yeah i know what you mean. I was at his place last nite and brought up the subject with him and it seems that he forgot to mention to me at the time that the mechanic took the plugs out and filled the cylinders with diesel as well to decarb them. The next day he sucked the diesel out with modified compressed air trigger. From what the old fella was doing seems routine maintanace job for him. Its was like its not the first time and last time that i will be doing this.
Anywas that was like 6 years ago and that car made quite a few of the 1700km trips from Mumba to Melbourne and he told me that he got the same old man up there to service it every time after that so good knows what else happed to it
. But it ran like a dream when he got rid of it about 2 years ago for a slab of beer. No idea how many km it had on it since the odometer in it never worked and it was stuck on about 130kkm so yeah.
So whos gonna try it
Anywas that was like 6 years ago and that car made quite a few of the 1700km trips from Mumba to Melbourne and he told me that he got the same old man up there to service it every time after that so good knows what else happed to it
. But it ran like a dream when he got rid of it about 2 years ago for a slab of beer. No idea how many km it had on it since the odometer in it never worked and it was stuck on about 130kkm so yeah.So whos gonna try it
If you want a quick engine flush, I have used the Amsoil flush and have had no problems over the years. I do not recommend it for a severely sludged engine such as one of those Toyotas from 97-02. But for a quick cleanup of an somewhat neglected engine, it has worked well for me. I have also used Neutra 2 oz per qt for 500-1000 miles flushes and the oil came out really dark.
In the last year or so I have been using Auto-RX for any cleaning inside of engines and found it does the most thorough job, but takes a lot longer to achieve those results. The maintenance dose is the way to go after a cleaning to keep clean and continue to clean some more.
To me, just pouring solvent in the engine pan and then draining out later is not going to achieve much without some sort of agitation. I have aslo used some Lubegard transmission flush as a gentle engine flush since I got so much of it on clearance a few years ago locally.
In the last year or so I have been using Auto-RX for any cleaning inside of engines and found it does the most thorough job, but takes a lot longer to achieve those results. The maintenance dose is the way to go after a cleaning to keep clean and continue to clean some more.
To me, just pouring solvent in the engine pan and then draining out later is not going to achieve much without some sort of agitation. I have aslo used some Lubegard transmission flush as a gentle engine flush since I got so much of it on clearance a few years ago locally.
Op here, to further explain what I mean an analogy: fry a steak in a pan and afterward that grease leftover is what I am refering to. You can pour it out (ala change oil), but a layer still clings to the pan however long you let in drain. Now grab a clean hand full of crisco and rub in pan (new oil) and this will clean the residue, mostly by diluting it. You can easily wipe most of this stuff off, and get a nearly clean pan. Add a little soap, which I try via a little flush into oil pan, to try to remove this last and still present otherwise contaminant to the new oil. You can agitate via several pours, spraying, and even bouncing car up/down by pushing on it.
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