Thread: Lifter valley looks nasty... flush it?

I didn't see that info listed anywhere. Gotcha..

Originally Posted by BillBoost37

It's tough to believe that you've been changing it every 3-4K, unless you have only had the car a couple of oil changes.

That's something I wouldn't want to clean all at once. Think about how stuff drains, clogs.. gets into the pickup of the oil system. No thanks. I'd prefer to do oil changes every 2K and know that it's super clean and fresh to clean that out slowly the way it accumulated.

Thats what I said...

Originally Posted by Kejross

A series of really frequent oil changes does a pretty decent job most of the time but that **** looks serious... Really shoulda done something when it was apart honestly.

And it works pretty good if your scared to thin your oil way down with those cleaners. Just get a high detergent oil to do it with that's not an expensive synthetic.

Originally Posted by The Chad

I know, but the car has been running cool since summer, too cool, which hadn't been letting the oil get hot enough. I read that this causes sludge and muck (because the vapor doesn't get out of the oil or something). The oil always drained decently, dirty but not nasty. The lifter valley surprised the heck out of me.

So to anyone who has a car running too cool for a while, beware.

Good food for thought, My car not being a daily gets alot of drives to and from the store down the block. Im gonna be sure to toss in some seafoam on mine and give it a treatment

At the worst..it's nothig to get upset about. A nice clean engine can be found for $300-$500. Sorry..lol but it's kinda funny.

Came back because afterthought made me think you might take it that way. No..it's not necessarily bad. If Bob suggests it..it's probably fine.

I mean if something goes very wrong.

It probably wouldn't hurt to actually drive the car. Give it some time with the road under it's wheels and it'll run even better. I've never had a constantly run, high mileage engine that ran bad.