Re: It's alive and ticking!

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>
" 
" 
" It's been a couple of years since the car ran and it's making a nasty 
" clicking sound in the valve train. I'm hoping that it's just trash in the 
" lifters. Anyone have any suggestions for something I can dump in the engine 
" to try and quite things down? The car has a 199 six with the early style 
" shaft rockers and it looks like there's oil getting to the rockers.

gunk brand motor flush.  take your oil down a quart [i've always just
waited until i was a qt low], run until warm, add flush, idle ~15
minutes, change oil.

the first time i used it i let the engine idle longer than 15m, more
like 30.  the idle which i thought was good, increased slightly and
smoothed out and a ticking lifter [sic] stopped.  i couldn't dump the
drain pan right away but when i did there was a metric buttload of
sludge in the bottom.

i was also advised it would ruin my seals as hardened sludge was the
only thing holding them together, but oil consumption went down
afterward, from 1000 to 1500 miles/qt.

this was on a '66 ex-at&t fleet car with 199 and probably over 200000
miles on the clock, in the early '80s.
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