Date:         Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:25:25 -0800
Reply-To:     Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
Subject:      Re: Soft lifters (was: clarify .006 on lifters) and Trasco filters
Comments: To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
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Great tips man. I'm going to roter rooter the heck out of my van
until it spots almost clear. :)

sure I always do the finger rub test after checking the dip stick this
is the poor man's way of checking for metal flakes, hehe

seems like i'm tring to get he most of of my VW motor. I even talk to
my car, DOES anyone else. I say come on baby come on..

take care
Joe

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Joseph  Fortino
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----         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM> wrote:
> William Said: I first cleaned out my engine by adding Gunk engine flush
> and running the engine for 5 minutes as per instructions on the can
> and
> then draining it.
> Stan said : Tell us what came out of the engine with the flush.
> Did you strain the oil to check for bearing flakes, brass distributor
> gears, iron rings / cylinders.?
> Was it blacker than usual ?
> Was it thick with carbon and crud? I mean was it thicker than the oil
> in
> just a standard oil dump?
> This is something you want to check any time you use engine flush.
> The Gunk or Siloo or other engine flushes normally dissolve varnish,
> loosen carbon, flush out oil galleries, clean the surface of your
> internal crankcase.
> The measure of how good it worked is the crud that comes out with the
> oil
> and flush.
> Its always good to know if they actually did any good or if you just
> threw your money away.
> I've flushed engines and had very nice clean oil and it told me that
> the
> block internals were already clean.
> Then there are always the three oil changes scenario, that baby was
> really stopped up, gummed up, shellacked up and I could definitely
> tell
> that the engine flush was cleaning everything or something.
>
> Stan Wilder
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