Originally Posted By: Shannow
Originally Posted By: Shannow
Originally Posted By: Trav
Its cleaning varnish deposits. No VM on newer transmissions, even if there were one it would get sucked into the intake and burned while running not the engine oil sump.
Yep, varnish is red to start with.
Just for (maybe) interest, here's Varnish in it's natural form without soot and the likes collecting in it.
The stuff only gets laid down once the oil can hold no more, so tends to get laid down in areas where the oil temperatures are lower.
That electrostatic machine pulls the varnish out of the oil, and the oil then resolves the laid down varnish, cleaning it up.Other techniques use ion exchange resins, and a few use an activated cellulose depth media.
I would love to somehow make one (the electrostatic) that would work on IC engines.
Agree as possible varnish cleaning in this case, and also could add that the polar solvent fractions in synthetic engine oils also help in the removal and dissolving of varnish at high flow high temperatures areas, like some esters, as I learnt from Capt. Mr. Molakule.