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Feb 1, 2006 | 07:36 PM

devilsword

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Engine Flush

Has anyone gotten a professional engine flush done. This is where a dealership hooks a device up to your engine by your oil filter location and runs compressed cleaner through it. If anyone has pros, cons i want to here them all. I have a truck with almost 600,000 miles on it so i think its worth the 89 bucks if it works.

Feb 1, 2006 | 09:19 PM

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My wife was conned into this by the dealership, charged her like $200.00. I had never heard about it at the time, so I went researching,what I found out was that if you change your oil and filter twice in 1 day, you've pretty well done the same thing for a fraction of the cost. Just my .02 Wow 600,000 miles, that's awesome, must be a Ford. What engine? 300-6cyl or a 4cyl Ranger?

Feb 3, 2006 | 08:39 PM

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it is a 2.9. Orignaly a show truck so it was well taken care of with only 1 previous owner(my uncle) Who then let it sit around 4 years where he would wash it one a week. He gave me the 2.9 5 speed manual on my 15th birthday were i spent a year cleanning and getting it to run again. Ever sense then i constanly work on it to maintian it well and running. this summer i am going to pull the engine and rebuild hopefully and use my motorcycle as a source of main trans. But away from that the main reason was trying to clean the oil screen. I s there anyway to do that without removing the oil pan?

Feb 3, 2006 | 09:36 PM

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Can't answer your oil screen question,sorry. Thats alot of miles on a 2.9, kind of makes me feel hopeful for my 91 3.0 with 215,000. P.S. Love your signature!

Feb 3, 2006 | 11:02 PM

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I assume you are talking about the screen on the pickup tube. I've seen a case where all of the oil was drained, a gallon of kerosene was dumped in the engine, it was left to sit for an afternoon (no, don't run it), then drained and replaced with new oil/filter.

Flushing engines via inserting some form of solvent and driving/running the engine is not a wise idea on high mile engines. This is because you can dislodge crud and plug oil galleries. You can also dislodge crud that has formed around the rings. This crud sometimes helps compression; dislodge it and maybe loose some compression AND plug an oil gallery. Life would not be good

Feb 4, 2006 | 04:46 AM

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I'll never flush an engine with harmful solvents again. There is a much better and safer alternative available:

http://www.auto-rx.com/

I can say based on experience that the stuff really works. This is what the DOHC in my SHO looked like inside at 150K when I pulled off the cam covers a few months after giving it a single Auto-Rx treatment:

Looks like new in there.

I like the fact too that Auto-Rx doesn't feel the need to hawk their product, there's no MLM schemes, no snazzy infomercials, you don't see ads for it on TV or even on the parts store counters. It's marketing success has been based soley on good old fashioned word-of-mouth.