- 1. cooling and oil mods? (score: 1)
- Author: "JJJ" <m1garand@speakeasy.net>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:43:36 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- Has anyone here fiddled with oil/water restriction or re-routing to help the basic Buick design? I see allot of products for Ford and Chevy to prioritize oil to the main bearings, etc. Does the 215/3
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- 2. Re: cooling and oil mods? (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Hunt \(T\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:35:39 -0000
- The rear tappets can suffer from oil starvation in a high-mileage engine at idle as they are all fed from the front, possibly the back bearings too, so with big clearances all round there will be pre
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- 3. Re: cooling and oil mods? (score: 1)
- Author: Glenn <g_wakefield@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 06:28:13 -0800 (PST)
- Am I missing something in my regular maintenance. What is a pre-change flushing treatment and do I really need to use one? Glenn -- "Paul Hunt (T)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: Regular oil an
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- 4. Re: cooling and oil mods? (score: 1)
- Author: "JJJ" <m1garand@speakeasy.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:14:06 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- Glenn, and company, I've used these once. It's a sludge-remover that you pour into your old oil just prior to changing it. You pour it in, let the car idle for 20 minutes, so the detergent can break
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- 5. Re: cooling and oil mods? (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Hunt \(T\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:35:59 -0000
- As JJJ has said. Some say you shouldn't use these it might loosen large chunks of dirt which block oilways, which seems a good reason to do it on a regular basis! It does come out like water and jet
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- 6. Re: cooling and oil mods? (score: 1)
- Author: "JJJ" <m1garand@speakeasy.net>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 11:19:19 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- Just in case there was any confusion, I wasn't saying not to use the pre-treatment every time, but rather that I wouldn't recommend buying an extra filter and cheap oil and doing a 2nd oil-change eve
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