95 Accord Sludge
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95 Accord Sludge
I have changed the oil every 3,000 miles. Have 109,000 now and was told there is a sludge problem. They opened up the engine and said since there is sludge buildup the engine is bad and needs to be replaced? Cant the sludge be removed?
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Originally Posted by wedley2
i remember a long time ago, someone ran a engine flush in their maxima...took out 9quarts of sludge/oil from the block...
So they are saying you need a new engine because of the sludge? They are so full of shit. Get your car put back together and flush the engine like wedley said.
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ahh, found it.
Originally Posted by maskedSONY
I use EAGLE engine oil flush on nearly every oil change to burn out every bit of sludge that does exist in my car's engine. I switched to snythetic at about 115K i think? I dont exactly remember when, but i havent noticed any problems.
I highly recommend engine flushes. I ran one on our old maxima which had a good chunk of sludge and i got 9 liters of fluid out. (the VQ engine is about 3.0L for reference - so that means that the engine flush fluid ate up and cleaned up the engine to produce 6L of sludge, which was all removed from the car!) Car ran like a gem afterwards, and this was at about 197K. (Maxima engines are the sh!*T!
I highly recommend engine flushes. I ran one on our old maxima which had a good chunk of sludge and i got 9 liters of fluid out. (the VQ engine is about 3.0L for reference - so that means that the engine flush fluid ate up and cleaned up the engine to produce 6L of sludge, which was all removed from the car!) Car ran like a gem afterwards, and this was at about 197K. (Maxima engines are the sh!*T!
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I highly recommend engine flushes. I ran one on our old maxima which had a good chunk of sludge and i got 9 liters of fluid out. (the VQ engine is about 3.0L for reference - so that means that the engine flush fluid ate up and cleaned up the engine to produce 6L of sludge, which was all removed from the car!) Car ran like a gem afterwards, and this was at about 197K. (Maxima engines are the sh!*T!
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Originally Posted by Motohip
How is this possible? There's no way it holds 9 liters of fluid. And why is he subtracting the 3.0 liters of engine displacement to come up with 9L - 3 L = 6 L. What kind of math is that?