Stan Wilder wrote: >The one hour required each year to give your engine a proper cleaning is >cheap insurance. > > It also makes repairs and maintenance much more pleasurable. As a bonus, sometimes in the cleaning process you find things that are wrong or just interesting and were hidden by accumulated gunk before. To the poster who said they were rewarded by new oil leaks after cleaning -- were they *really* new, or just old ones that weren't obvious because the engine was dirty? |
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