Subject: RE: Oil Pan Sludge
Author: John Ulrich
Date: Dec 2, 2003, 10:23 AM
Post ID: 1715383837
Steven Camp wrote:
| While im thinking of it, my 72 ambo has 89,000 miles on it and I thought I would pull the oil pan to clean the sludge out and look > for evidence of chrome breakdown. It was clean as a whistle??? |
There is a screw-in plug in the crankshaft that collects sludge. You
need to clean it out when you rebuild yours. If your cylinders are
intact with no peeling you have escaped the bullet so far.
Did you strain the old oil thru an old t-shirt or similar? Chrome is a
very fine evil which will show up as scarring on bearing surfaces, oil
pump shafts and rocker arm bushings. As it progresses it scars the
crankshaft. The oil pump grinds it up and distributes it through out
the motor to play havoc. I found some stuck in the oil feed lines
heading to the top of the heads. Clean, clean, clean when you have it
apart.
Later,
JU