evil_monkey
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ok well i just bought this mint 95 vs v6 colum shift ute a few days ago.
only to find when i ring holden and asked them about the service history on the vehicle they told me a few things nothing major and one thing that i also noticed a rocker cover gasket leak.
now what happened was the idiot that owned the car freaked when they told him that the rocker covers were leaking he promptly took the vehicle and to what seems to me tried to add engine oil thickener to stop the leak but instead of stopping the leak he has filled the engine full of dried out sludge i guess he either didnt do it properly or put to much of it in...........
keeping in mind this car has very low kms for its age (109000) its a one owner with full log books all backed up by holden first thing i would like to know is how anyone can be so stupid ???
anyway back to the problem the car itself runs fantastic you cannot fault it the dried out sludge worries me though. properly following instructions we ran that engine flush additive in it twice yesterday for 15 minutes on idle then drop the oil the first time the oil came out pitch black and fairly thick the second time it came out dark coffe colured and not so thick now i plan to stick some cheap vavoline oil in it and a cheap oil filter and run it for about 500 kms to try dislodge that little bit more of that stuff then drop it and put castrol magnatec (used to use it on my vt) and ryco oil filter.
is there really much else i can do ?? my dad seems to think that it should be ok seeing is how great the car actually runs and that it dosent blow any smoke or anythin else
only to find when i ring holden and asked them about the service history on the vehicle they told me a few things nothing major and one thing that i also noticed a rocker cover gasket leak.
now what happened was the idiot that owned the car freaked when they told him that the rocker covers were leaking he promptly took the vehicle and to what seems to me tried to add engine oil thickener to stop the leak but instead of stopping the leak he has filled the engine full of dried out sludge i guess he either didnt do it properly or put to much of it in...........
keeping in mind this car has very low kms for its age (109000) its a one owner with full log books all backed up by holden first thing i would like to know is how anyone can be so stupid ???
anyway back to the problem the car itself runs fantastic you cannot fault it the dried out sludge worries me though. properly following instructions we ran that engine flush additive in it twice yesterday for 15 minutes on idle then drop the oil the first time the oil came out pitch black and fairly thick the second time it came out dark coffe colured and not so thick now i plan to stick some cheap vavoline oil in it and a cheap oil filter and run it for about 500 kms to try dislodge that little bit more of that stuff then drop it and put castrol magnatec (used to use it on my vt) and ryco oil filter.
is there really much else i can do ?? my dad seems to think that it should be ok seeing is how great the car actually runs and that it dosent blow any smoke or anythin else
lol yeah i might look at some different oils next service im also running my vs sedan on that stuff to and i have about 12 litres of the sh!t to get rid of.