

| Subject: | Re: Flushing the crankcase |
| From: | Roger Sisler |
| Date: | Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:41:45 -0500 |
I had a 1.9 that had an orange glaze all over the interior of every sq inch of the engine. Also,carbon build up in the usual places. A badly maintained engine. Check the interior of the valve covers to see if you have a glaze. I put in "engine medic" from Gunk.Avaliable at Advance Auto Parts,and too cheap to pass up. It is for restoring hydraulic lifters. Removes carbon build up that causes sticking.Why not put some in for the entire engine? I did this several times. What I got was chucks of carbon flaking off and plugging the small oil passseges, and the oil pick up tubescreen.The symptoms were the oil light coming on at idle.Never came on before.Got worse and worse. I put this engine to rest.There is no oil pan on the WBX. Moral to the story-Dont clean a dirty engine. Make sure the engine you have is correctly maintained.
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