Kerosene To Flush Engine?

[HowLeTT]

yeah check around at gas stations near you, random ones will have a kerosene pump just like for the gas.

[kfud]

Did the Kerosene thing yesterday (per tracer bullet's write up, thanks!). Man, just pouring the Kerosene into the engine you could see it clean things up. Value train is less noisey after a cold start, engine even revs smoother when it's cold. Friction gear noise has doubled however (which is what I excepted). Holy krap it was loud this morning. But it shut up after about 30 seconds which is less than usual. A the tapping sounds after much less and disappear completely when the engine is warm.

And wow, was the Kenosene/oil mix hot coming out of the engine! The steaming was blowig out of the drain plug.

First drain (100% - old oil): black
Second drain (50/50 - Kerosene/Oil): black
Third drain (50/50 - Kerosene/Oil): dark brown.

Good thing I didn't spend 40$ CDN on the STP flush. Kerosene probably does a better job anyway.

[padstack]

IL-96:

I know of places that accept old oil, but kerosene? I just don't want to hang on to 5 gallons of old kerosene lying around.

[probe]

after reading all the replies to this post, i am confused. i think. everybody is talking about black, sometimes chunky, oil draining from their cars during the flush. when i did mine, the oil came out dark (before flush), then right after the flush it came out almost the identical color of the fresh oil. i flushed the motor twice. once with pyroil motor flush and then with naptha (like i said in a different post). apart from the original draining, oil came out looking like new. i suppose i shouldn't be worried, but glad. right? any thoughts?
oh yeah, i followed the exact steps that are detailed earlier in this post.
to copy what kfud did:
1st- 100% (used oil) dark (not really black)
2nd- 75/25% (pyroil-max life)clean
3rd- 50/50% (naptha-max life)clean

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[ This Message was edited by: probe on 05/9/2001 10:58pm ]

[bluehornet]

On 2001-05-10 04:57, probe wrote:
after reading all the replies to this post, i am confused. i think. everybody is talking about black, sometimes chunky, oil draining from their cars during the flush. when i did mine, the oil came out dark (before flush), then right after the flush it came out almost the identical color of the fresh oil. i flushed the motor twice. once with pyroil motor flush and then with naptha (like i said in a different post). apart from the original draining, oil came out looking like new. i suppose i shouldn't be worried, but glad. right? any thoughts?
oh yeah, i followed the exact steps that are detailed earlier in this post.

Your engine is clean. Yea you!

[kfud]

Just to follow up.

For the first time in over a year, I was surprised to start my engine and not hear any wierd noises at all. I could not believe it. Usually after my car would sit for a few hour, start it up and it would tick, click, clack and the noises would stick around for like 10-15 minutes. Now, nothing, not even the FGS noise! Incredible.

[Rick_96PGT]

On 2001-04-10 01:52, bluehornet wrote:

On 2001-04-10 01:32, Ltsrunem wrote:
How could somebody screw this up? Sounds pretty simple. I'm thinking about doing it.

So RICK this stuff will actually decarb the engine?

You'd be amazed.

Not Rick, but as he's said, yes, it will de-carb the engine.

This isnt a de-carb process...Its a de-sludge process...This will clean all the old/bad oil and sludge out of an engine...

[wee777]

So decarboning the engine with the spray can and hose, and this kerosene flush are two different things and serve two different purposes?

[Ltsrunem]

On 2001-06-03 09:01, wee777 wrote:
So decarboning the engine with the spray can and hose, and this kerosene flush are two different things and serve two different purposes?

I was just wondering the same thing. I guess it would be different cause oil doesn't travel through any vaccum hoses.

[Rocket]

De-carboning the "INTAKE" and desludging the engine are 2 very different things. They are both cheap and easy to do, but I found a lot better results with decarboning the Intake. That gave me some HP back. Desludging didn't give me anymore power, just a cleaner engine. Do them BOTH!

[effeddex]

i'm too chicken to do this...

WAY too chicken!!

But i gotta do something cuz my car sounds like crap cuz of the hla noise... really not evident from outside, but from inside w/ stereo off, it's like having a bad valve.

i think i'll use stp or gunk and use the mobil 1 heavy duty.
any opinions on engine restore v6??

cheers

[kfud]

Just a little follow up on the kerosene flush.
2000km later my oil is still clear. Darker, but still clear enough to see through. Used to be black after like 1000km. ( :scold: bad fram filter, bad fram filter :scold: ).

Definately adding this to the spring cleaning list. :smile:

[Rick_96PGT]

You did the Kerosene flush?
How does the engine sound?
HLA's a little quieter?...

The oil should stay semi light in color into your next oil change....

[kfud]

Everything is quieter, except the friction gear noise. Its MUCH worse now. Must of cleaned all the gunk that prevented it from making more noise.

It would also seem, my VGC are leaking more now. Aw well, that's what extended warrenties are for right?

Do VCG overlap replacing the FGS? I going to get both gaskets changed tomorrow. Maybe I could get them to change the spring at the same time.

Anyway, I'm glad I didn't waste 40$ on the STP flush.

[effeddex]

STP engine flush was CAD$9.99... taht's US$0.02...

btw, where is the friction gear noise supposed to come from and what is the friction gear??

cheers!