I just recently had the engine timing chain assembly replaced on my 2010 Accord at 200k miles. I walked into the shop during the repair and saw a fair amount of varnish and maybe even some slight gunk around the cams under the valve cover.
Nothing of major concern, and there wasn't any "sludge" issue. But I'd like to address the situation and try to combat it as I plan to drive this Accord to the 400-500k mile mark.
The car has mostly seen PU, M1, and recently Valvoline MaxLife synthetic oils. I've been running 8-10k mile OCI's and this car is driven >90% on the highway for long trips.
What should my plan be to clean up the internals a bit?? I just changed the oil after the repair. This being a short 5K mile OCI. I plan to run a 4-5 OCI's around the 5k mile mark to help with clean up.
I poured in M1 5w30 High Mileage EP and a FU filter.
I ran a can of BG's EPR (#109) as a flush before the oil change. I have another can on hand. I also have 2 cans of Liqui Moly Pro-Line Engine flush. So my plan was to run 4 OCI's at 5k miles and using the engine flush at end of each of these oil changes.
Good plan??? Can you think of anything else I might do or use???
What about a few OCI's with Red Line or something else that's highly polar???
Nothing of major concern, and there wasn't any "sludge" issue. But I'd like to address the situation and try to combat it as I plan to drive this Accord to the 400-500k mile mark.
The car has mostly seen PU, M1, and recently Valvoline MaxLife synthetic oils. I've been running 8-10k mile OCI's and this car is driven >90% on the highway for long trips.
What should my plan be to clean up the internals a bit?? I just changed the oil after the repair. This being a short 5K mile OCI. I plan to run a 4-5 OCI's around the 5k mile mark to help with clean up.
I poured in M1 5w30 High Mileage EP and a FU filter.
I ran a can of BG's EPR (#109) as a flush before the oil change. I have another can on hand. I also have 2 cans of Liqui Moly Pro-Line Engine flush. So my plan was to run 4 OCI's at 5k miles and using the engine flush at end of each of these oil changes.
Good plan??? Can you think of anything else I might do or use???
What about a few OCI's with Red Line or something else that's highly polar???