Inside engine cleaning

[Eyvind Spangen]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:21:19 EST, you wrote:

>If you're rebuilding the engine and having a shop do it, they can hot tank
>all the parts to look almost like new.  If you're disassembling the engine
>yourself and rebuilding yourself, try some of the gunk type engine
>degreasers, spray on, scrub with a nylon brush, rinse off, usually works real
>well.  If you're not rebuilding the motor, and just have the oil pan off, I'd
>just leave as is, no need to disturb that stuff and have it going all through
>your motor.  Even though it doesn't look good, its not really doing much
>harm.  After you have the motor running, run a bottle of engine flush through
>your oil, that usually gets things pretty clean.

Thanks a lot! I just had the oil pan and cam cover off to replace the
gaskets. I'll just run a bottle of engine flush through before next
oil change.. :-)

It probably doesn't harm anything, but it looks bad.. :-)

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E. Spangen
'86 Audi 100 2.2 CS quattro