<VV> Synthetic Oil / Sludge

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In a message dated 1/8/05 5:55:33 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
rbyers03@tampabay.rr.com writes:


> What worried the owner and me, of course, was whether the sludge build-up
> would one day block one of the oil passages.  Two years later he was still
> driving it with no leaks and no engine failures.
> Ron Byers
> 
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Ron,  you must be young!  gggg

In the 60's it was very common for many to still use "non-detergent oil" [SA] 
with the ensuing sludge buildup!  I've seen the lifters flat [ usually why 
they traded the car in] as well as the oil light not going off....pull a valve 
cover and see no valvesprings...mountain of sludge...oil filter cannister [ 
elements fit inside]  dry/hard asa rock.

Remedy..fill the crankcase with Kerosene / pearle solvent....carboard in 
front of the radiator.....get it so hot it boiled over....

shut down...remove plug..and usually use a screwdriver to unplug the 
drain!...Then this is when you found the STILL dry  filter!
We used a coathanger to ream out the passages the best we could......then 
refill [new filter]  with any ATF......someone would drive the car hard for a few 
days....

Usually the snoking stopped...the lifters pumped up......oil leaks???   All 
cars leaked oil then!  gggg

I personally kept one of the worse....little old lady had driven it "missing" 
 for 4 years....'56 Olds 324"     6 broken valve springs...

I drove it hard for a year [10k]  then gave it to my foster mother who drove 
it back east to Ark...Several years later and many long trips...she gave it to 
a worthless son, who had found religion...until he got  car....whereupon he 
totaled it.



Matt Nall
65/66/69/DB/BT
Coos Bay, Ore.