[A4] Repair or walk away - advice for an Oil Sludge victim?

[Al S]

Add a quart of "Rislone" instead of your regular oil, change in 500 miles,
repeat twice. Change filter, do not use a Fram filter, please. Continue to
use the rislone and increase the milage for changeout. This worked on a 1977
Caddy I bought, the owner said he changed the oil, what he meant was he
added a quart when necessary.Never drained it. The valve covers were filled
with sludge leaving only enough room for the valve components. It took a
while to clean the engine out, eventually I rebuilt the engine.
http://www.rislone.com/engine.htm
No affilliation, etc, etc.

Al

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Arthur Marks
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 8:27 AM
To: a4 at audifans.com; quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [A4] Repair or walk away - advice for an Oil Sludge victim?

Here's a write-up in progress:
http://members.cox.net/ambox/audi_sludge/

Includes autopsies of a Mahle and a Bosch oil filter. Soon I'll hack up the
dealer filter.

Let me know if I have forgotten to include relevant information.

--Art

ps -- Since it sounds like you didn't drive the vehicle with the pressure
severely low the bearings may be ok.

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