Re: Oil change pre-treatments...

[John Graham <jgraham1@erols.com>]

Gerard wrote:

> 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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Synthetic oil is the best. That one reason you need to check for leaks
before changeing to it.It will remove a lot of gunk in between shot
gaskets. This will make it leak a lot more than before
uesing synthetic oil.

John.