Knifeblade_03 wrote:
I bought a beater car awhile back, poorly maintained
engine-wise. Sludged up in the valve heads. Used some Gunk
5-minute engine flush, it cleared it out rather well, but
the oil was really bad looking when draining out, and got a
short-term leak from rear crank seal.
But, it was old beater car, no real loss if the Gunk harmedWhen I was a kid, we use plain old kerosene in the crankcase.
the engine, which it didn't, in this case. I'd hesitate to
substitute an engine cleaner to fix lack of regular
oil-changes [including new filter].
Drain the oil, fill with kero, run for 5 minutes, kill it, drain
it (the kero coming out was more like oil than kero!), fill with
a 50/50 mix of kero/30W, run until hot or about 15 minutes,
drain, put in oil, drive a week, drain and refill again. Forgot;
takes three oil filters, too, two during and final one
afterwards. Worked wonders on my 54 Chevy, 55 Ford, and then a
friend's 57 Chevy. Never hurt a thing that we ever knew of. I
DON"T think I'd try that with today's cars though!
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