Any Amsoil dealers here?

[Fst Blk]

Amsoil looks like a good engine sludge remover, so looking to pic some up. Anybody a dealer or suggest a better product for removing sludge in an engine?

Bill

 

[Sluggo]

The shop I work at is an Amsoil dealer. I'm out until Tuesday though.

How much sludge are we talking?

 

[Fst Blk]

It's my brothers 98 T/A 5.7 LS. It must have lived a rough life. My brother replaced the oil pump after the pressure bottomed out. When the pan was dropped it was determined that the cause was sludge an the pan and bottom end of the motor was cleaned out good and a LS6 oil pump(increased volume) is used. All is well and he changes the oil several times and no pressure drops. He decides to do a cam swap and a custom tune. The guy pulls the valve covers to change the springs and it's a mess. The heads are cleaned and he brings it home. On the way home pressure drops from 60psi to a tick below 40 and the lifters chatter. He limps it on towards his house. Pressure returns and he romps on it and all is well. He's just freaking out because all the money he's dropped in it with cam, tune, headers, ls6 intake, and stall convertor. He asked me to help him flush it and I've been trying to find a good product for it. The sludge should mostly be gone after the bottom end and heads have been clean but apparently there is small particles that need to be dissolved and flushed out.

Bill

 

[Larry G]

Yes, I'm a dealer but I'm heading down to Florida right now and will be gone till May 3rd. If you can wait till than I can help you out.

 

[Anonymous]

I would think any 100% synthetic would do a great job of cleaning. I know one of the problems (if you can call it that) is they clean so good that old engines that essentially are sealed from the inside out will often leak after switching over to synthetic. You may want to use some of the cheap synthetics (catch them on sale) and once it's cleaned use the Amsoil for the long term. Be sure to keep an eye on the filter as it may clog fairly quickly. BTY, I use synthetic in everything I have, checked the daughters oil in her 08 Mustang yesterday and with 3k miles on the change, it is still translucent.