<VV> Sleeping Lakewood

[Tony Underwood]

At 01:54 hours 04/05/2005, J R Read_HML wrote:
>I think he needs to clean out as much sludge as possible MANUALLY from 
>every reachable orifice.  My concern is that the ATF ONLY route is going 
>to dislodge a piece of crud that will block an oil galley or two and the 
>engine will suddenly become history.


As mentioned, the pan, valve covers and top cover will come off... it's 
what's inside the crankcase above the sump I'm wondering about.    I do NOT 
intend to split the cases to clean sludge.   Gotta be a better way.

Rislone...  ;)

...and oil changes.



>Tony, rather than flushing the engine (and circulating all the  crud that's
>currently sleeping in bottom of the pan)  I think you  would be time, money,
>band engine life ahead if you just pulled the pan and  scraped out the 75% 
>that's
>in the pan.  You know the pan gasket is shot  anyway.


Amazingly enough, this car does NOT leak.    Not yet.    Of course, it only 
has about 20 minutes of actual running time since it's been resurrected.


>After you put the
>clean pan back on, if you want to  flush then to try and clean out the other
>parts, I guess that wouldn't hurt  anything.  I'd just cut to the chase, 
>drop the
>pan now, and get it over  with... My 5¢  Your smilage may vary...
>Your pal, Craig 5¢
>
>Question: If you kiss a sleeping Lakewood, what do you  get???




I'm curious now... what do you get besides odd looks from the neighbors?



tony..