Don't strain all of the oil.
Just strain about a cup or two from the bottom of your drain pan after it
sits for twenty minutes, mixed with gasoline / kerosine /Coleman lantern
fuel and pour it through a paper coffee filter.
I only do this test on cars that are new to me so I can see the general
condition of the engine when I flush them in the course of evaluating the
required maintenance.

Stan Wilder

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:04:13 -0800 "developtrust" <developtrust@home.com>
writes:
> I did not even think of straining the oil. You are certainly a fount
> of
> knowledge my friend. I will strain the oil in there now with the
> Marvel
> mystery oil when the time comes.
>
> I'm going to do the Gunk engine flush on my Mercedes which has
> 170,000 miles
> on it and I will strain it to see. I want to preserve that Mercedes
> engine
> as I love that car and have taken good care of it.
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> William Polowniak
> 1989 Vanagon GL
> 1988 Mercedes 300 SE
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stan Wilder" <wilden1@juno.com>
> To: <developtrust@HOME.COM>
> Cc: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Soft lifters (was: clarify .006 on lifters) and Trasco
> filters
>
>
> > William Said: I first cleaned out my engine by adding Gunk engine
> flush
> > and running the engine for 5 minutes as per instructions on the
> can and
> > then draining it.
> > Stan said : Tell us what came out of the engine with the flush.
> > Did you strain the oil to check for bearing flakes, brass
> distributor
> > gears, iron rings / cylinders.?
> > Was it blacker than usual ?
> > Was it thick with carbon and crud? I mean was it thicker than the
> oil in
> > just a standard oil dump?
> > This is something you want to check any time you use engine
> flush.
> > The Gunk or Siloo or other engine flushes normally dissolve
> varnish,
> > loosen carbon, flush out oil galleries, clean the surface of your
> > internal crankcase.
> > The measure of how good it worked is the crud that comes out with
> the oil
> > and flush.
> > Its always good to know if they actually did any good or if you
> just
> > threw your money away.
> > I've flushed engines and had very nice clean oil and it told me
> that the
> > block internals were already clean.
> > Then there are always the three oil changes scenario, that baby
> was
> > really stopped up, gummed up, shellacked up and I could definitely
> tell
> > that the engine flush was cleaning everything or something.
> >
> > Stan Wilder
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