Oil change pre-treatments...

[Gerard <gerard@poboxes.com>]

Hi!

I'm sure the subject line is abit obscure. :)

I've got an oil leak fix coming up on Monday. I'm switching over to
synthetic oil as well, thought I might as well do it now. I'm going
to be using 10W40 or 5W40 or 15W50. I've seen a bunch of products in
the motor spares shops named something like "oil change treatment".
You put this stuff in, run in the engine for 10 minutes and then
drain the oil while it is still warm. The idea is that it will dissolve
most of the deposits such as resins that form off the oil. Now, if I'm
going to be changing over my oil I might as well clean the whole motor
out real good and also ensure that the turbo gets similar resin-removing
oil cleaning since they're fed off the same oil reservoir.

What would be the best deposit removing substance to use? I have used
some of those products they have on those irritating TV commercials
(yes, we get the US commercials here in South Africa as well :)). I've
used something called DuraLube in a 1979 Mercedes Benz 300D (W123 model,
beautiful car, one owner since new :) ). It is simply an metal surface
treatment that clings to the metal surfaces in the engine to reduce
wear, but it did make a difference to the way the motor spun. Very
smooth running. I was wondering what product could do a real cleaning of
the deposits that have form on the engine and turbo parts in my 1990
Audi Turbo (200T) before I have the oil and filters changed? Any
suggestions?

Thanks for the help that I've been getting from this group. Needless
to say I'm going to be saving myself a lot of money where I thought I'd
have to take the machine to a specialist idiot and not and ordinary
idiot like myself. :)

Cheers!

G.

PS: Oh yes, these "treatments" are also called "engine flush"
    treatments.
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