I use marvel mistery oil one or two heat cycles before an oil change it makes even the cleanest oil black in short order. Bob Donalds Boston Engine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Sisler" <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 10:41 AM Subject: Re: Flushing the crankcase
> I had a 1.9 that had an orange glaze all over the interior of every sq > inch of the engine. Also,carbon build up in the usual places. A badly > maintained engine. Check the interior of the valve covers to see if you > have a glaze. > > I put in "engine medic" from Gunk.Avaliable at Advance Auto Parts,and too > cheap to pass up. It is for restoring hydraulic lifters. Removes carbon > build up that causes sticking.Why not put some in for the entire engine? I > did this several times. What I got was chucks of carbon flaking off and > plugging the small oil passseges, and the oil pick up tubescreen.The > symptoms were the oil light coming on at idle.Never came on before.Got > worse and worse. I put this engine to rest.There is no oil pan on the WBX. > > Moral to the story-Dont clean a dirty engine. Make sure the engine you > have is correctly maintained. |
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