BlueChariot
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- Thomasville, Georgia
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- '94
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- Mazda
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I know that flushing oil is just lightweight oil, but I need to clean some bad deposits out of the Vic's engine, (as enplained in a previous thread) it's got a grit like buildup that I'm pretty sure got knocked look and distributed after it was put in as it had been sitting a while.
One friend suggests adding in some automatic transmission fluid and running the engine around town and then draining, another guy says put it on ramps, drain oil and leave drain plug out then pour assloads of parts cleaner through. How viable are these ideas? I haven't had to flush an engine before, and I'd rather not have to drop the oil pan and clean it if theres something I can do that will do a good enough job of disolving this crap and draining it out with the oil.
One friend suggests adding in some automatic transmission fluid and running the engine around town and then draining, another guy says put it on ramps, drain oil and leave drain plug out then pour assloads of parts cleaner through. How viable are these ideas? I haven't had to flush an engine before, and I'd rather not have to drop the oil pan and clean it if theres something I can do that will do a good enough job of disolving this crap and draining it out with the oil.