Varnish Help?
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Varnish Help?
I was recently able to buy back my 01 vert that I had to sell due to financial reasons about 4 years ago. I had sold it with 4,800 miles and a fresh crankcase full of oil to someone I know that took outstanding care of it in most every way. I got it back with about 15K miles on it. It had only 1 oil change for the 4 years it was away and the DIC showed about 7% oil life left. I put some seafoam in the crank and drove it about 50 miles, then changed the oil. My question is that there is some varnish build-up on the upper portion of the dipstick, so I assume there is some also in other parts of my engine. I plan to put some more seafoam in the crank this fall, put about 100 miles on it then change it before I put it up for winter. Any suggestions on anything else I can do to improve the health of my engine for the long term? Thanks in advance.
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With the exception of techron occasionally, I do not use additives in the crankcase.
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I you have good quality fresh oil in it, add a can of rislone engine treatment and drive it to the next oil change intervel.
Rislone is a quality product that helps clean the engine. I doubt if theres any issues with your engine and If it were me, I wouldnt even worry about it.
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums...Number=1076592
http://www.epinions.com/review/Rislo...t_451066826372
Rislone is a quality product that helps clean the engine. I doubt if theres any issues with your engine and If it were me, I wouldnt even worry about it.
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums...Number=1076592
http://www.epinions.com/review/Rislo...t_451066826372
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From: Maryville Tennessee
Thanks for the responses. I'm real comfortable that I got the car back in fantastic shape. But if I had kept it throughout it's life it would have had it's oil changed once a year and we wouldn't be having this discussion. I just want to be sure that if there is something else I should be doing that it gets done.
