STP filter "2 oil changes" unknown miles cut open with sludge deposits!!

[oil pan 4]

8,000 miles, 2 Valvoline Restore and Protect oil changes, year, 1 oil filter.
Sludgetacular.

I'm thinking 8k is ding filter is done.

 

[folzag2]

8,000 miles, 2 Valvoline Restore and Protect oil changes, year, 1 oil filter.
Sludgetacular.

I'm thinking 8k is ding filter is done.

Gotta wrap media in a few paper towels for 24-48 hr. That will leach the liquid oil out and give contrast to see the sludge and particulates left behind. Otherwise, it's all pretty close to the same color and hard to really see.

 

[oil pan 4]

Gotta wrap media in a few paper towels for 24-48 hr. That will leach the liquid oil out and give contrast to see the sludge and particulates left behind. Otherwise, it's all pretty close to the same color and hard to really see.

There are sludge particles that look like coffee grounds on the filter end caps. Plus I already burned the filter.

 

[Urshurak776]

I would keep going with the R&P. Probably best thing you could do for it right now. Thanks for keeping us posted on the progress.

 

[oil pan 4]

I would keep going with the R&P. Probably best thing you could do for it right now. Thanks for keeping us posted on the progress.

yeah I figured by the 3rd or 4th oci most of the sludge would be gone. I was way off. I thinks that last one was the 5th and it seems like it's no where close to being gone.

 

[oil pan 4]

It took a while but the oil is still looking great after 3,300 miles and at least a thousand of them were mild towing in hot summer weather, going +3,300ft over 50 or 60 miles.

 

[WKTEDDYBEAR]

I didn't know they did that....that's interesting. I drove 2 Dodge Tradesman vans with the 318 when I was teeneager and both were abused by the regular drivers (in that it was in NYC traffic making deliveries and I was the only driver who checked the oil etc...) One Saturday I had to add 4 quarts of 10w30 ....it was running on about 1 quart all week. The boss sold that one at over 100K and the guy who bought it ran it for years afterwards. I can't remember what happened to the other van but I think it was simlarly sold after I left the place.
At what mileage did those plastic teeth usually fail? You wonder why engineers make such poor design decisions?

PS: Those 4 quarts of 10w30 were 'Wolf's Head....Finest of the Fine since 1879'.

Wasn't just Dodge, GM had plastic teeth too, I imagine so did Ford. I have put 180,000+ on a 318's, around same on GM's. have known them to go over 200,000 and have known of one that went under 100,000, don't remember what it was.