WOW - Badly neglected engine...
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This should read- Oil not changed often enough or cheap oil destroys engine.
Fixed that for you.
Boggles the mind, 140k on the motor and in that shape.
That core will get shipped off to Jasper, they'll polish some things up, throw some oversized bearings in it and send it.
Looks like my buddy’s Ex-girlfriends car engine...” Him: when’s the last time you changed oil, Her: you have to change the oil? 
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Looks like a McDonald's deep fryer that was drained so they can move it. No worries, they gonna refill it with the old cooking oil. 
Or maybe, "What's that oil stuff for?"
Fryer would be a lot easier to clean (I know, I work on them)! Boil that sucker out!Looks like a McDonald's deep fryer that was drained so they can move it. No worries, they gonna refill it with the old cooking oil.
Yikes! That's impressively bad. Still love my 5.4L though.
Maybe I will borescope my engine to see what it looks like in the cam area. Nearly 200K miles of M1, I'm sure it's perfect.
Maybe I will borescope my engine to see what it looks like in the cam area. Nearly 200K miles of M1, I'm sure it's perfect.
That's quite a bit worse than my 5.4L !
I've seen enough engine teardowns to not be surprised at this mess. What I don't understand is how someone replaced the timing chain and other components without addressing the sludge. Is it possible that when the chain was done the top end looked OK? Doubtful to me, but I just look at pictures and am no expert.
Seen worse sludge on my 09 Cadillac with 90,000 miles.
After 12 hours of painstaking cleaning, it ran great, although it ran great before as well. Only symptoms were timing chain codes.
But oil is bad for the environment. I kid.
Seriously, I struggle to wrap my brain around this. Even the laziest human in the world who owns a vehicle, can go to Walmart once per year and spend $50, while they grocery shop, for an oil change. It's almost brainlessly easy and takes maybe 10 minutes at most. I can do an oil change using basic materials for like 30 bucks.
Not doing so is destroying an engine and disabling a vehicle worth, what, many tens of thousands of dollars. I just don't understand it at all.
Seriously, I struggle to wrap my brain around this. Even the laziest human in the world who owns a vehicle, can go to Walmart once per year and spend $50, while they grocery shop, for an oil change. It's almost brainlessly easy and takes maybe 10 minutes at most. I can do an oil change using basic materials for like 30 bucks.
Not doing so is destroying an engine and disabling a vehicle worth, what, many tens of thousands of dollars. I just don't understand it at all.
Did you pull the pan or just clean out the heads?
I pulled the front cover,
but don't remember the oil pan. It was over 10 years ago now.
You did an impressive job cleaning that engine! I wonder if it is still running?
It's the same people who leave there car outside and fill the garage with $40 worth of plastic patio furniture.
Wow! Good job! Gives me confidence that I can save my sludged up 5.4 !
Did you get a good deal and buy it like that? What made it sludge up so badly?
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