What's the inside of your engine look like?!

[Mad_Hatter]

Originally Posted by ChrisD46
* I'm about ready for a cigarette now and I don't even smoke ! ... A couple of these pictures will become my new screen saver (lol !)


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[DuckRyder]

https://www.bobistheoilguy.com/foru...ngine-look-like-on-mobil-oil#Post5103063

 

[Mad_Hatter]

Originally Posted by DuckRyder
https://www.bobistheoilguy.com/foru...ngine-look-like-on-mobil-oil#Post5103063


Looks great for nearly 200k! ðŸ‘

 

[jbutch]

All right, I'll contribute.

Here are some under valve cover of my previous vehicle , a 2009 Suzuki SX4 with a J20A engine. Total mileage 150k miles.

All its life, QSUD (brown bottle) was used with OCI of 5k to 6k.

It seems I cannot link pictures properly, if I use the uploader, all I get is a black image.

 

[JLTD]

Originally Posted by jbutch
All right, I'll contribute.

Here are some under valve cover of my previous vehicle , a 2009 Suzuki SX4 with a J20A engine. Total mileage 150k miles.

All its life, QSUD (brown bottle) was used with OCI of 5k to 6k.

It seems I cannot link pictures properly, if I use the uploader, all I get is a black image.


On Imgur, go to the photo page and click on the picture you want to use. On that page there is a menu down the right side; choose "UBB code"(I think), which will copy the link, then just paste the whole link by itself in your reply . Doesn't work on my phone but good to go on computer.

A bit of varnish on there...no sludge though.

 

[650NutKase]

Originally Posted by jbutch
All right, I'll contribute.

Here are some under valve cover of my previous vehicle , a 2009 Suzuki SX4 with a J20A engine. Total mileage 150k miles.

All its life, QSUD (brown bottle) was used with OCI of 5k to 6k.

It seems I cannot link pictures properly, if I use the uploader, all I get is a black image.

Those pictures look a little rough for 5k intervals and synthetic QS... odd...

 

[jbutch]

Originally Posted by 2012AccentSE
Originally Posted by jbutch
All right, I'll contribute.

Here are some under valve cover of my previous vehicle , a 2009 Suzuki SX4 with a J20A engine. Total mileage 150k miles.

All its life, QSUD (brown bottle) was used with OCI of 5k to 6k.




It seems I cannot link pictures properly, if I use the uploader, all I get is a black image.

Those pictures look a little rough for 5k intervals and synthetic QS... odd...


Yup, more varnish than I would have expected. It ran like a champ though.

Edit: Thanks JLTD!

 

[Mad_Hatter]

Originally Posted by JLTD
A bit of varnish on there...no sludge though.


That's what I noticed when I did my valve covers @160k. Is that varnish there forever? I'm reluctant to use any kind of flush. I do however use Rislone engine treatment from time to time

 

[Virtus_Probi]

The inside of my engine is very dark right now.

 

[Number_35]

2001 Mazda Protege 1.6. Photo taken in 2012 during a timing belt change. About 180K km (c. 110K miles) on the car, with oil changes twice a year (averaging perhaps 8K - 10K km [5K - 6K miles]) from 2005/66K km on. Mobil 1 5W-30 used most of the time.

 

[Number_35]

1997 Mazda MPV 3.0. Photos taken in 2014 @ around 300K km (c 187K miles), while I was chasing down oil and coolant leaks. The engine was run mostly on Mobil 1 5W-30 changed twice a year (average 10K km [6K miles]) from 2001/94K km (c. 58K miles) on.

 

[Number_35]

Originally Posted by benjy
back in the day 70's i hung around a friends auto parts + engine rebuilding shop + would strip engines for cleaning + rebuilds. took one small block chevy apart + filled a pound coffee can with sludge, no info on servicing or not but i asked the owner if he used pennzoil + he said yes!! on the other hand i stripped my oil drinking 307 chevy at 75 thou + it was spotless internally on valvoline conventional 10-30 of the 70's, i prolly did changes at 3 thou with mostly local + short trips,
My '68 Impala (307) also guzzled oil. It was pretty clean when I pulled the heads though - 2000 mile OCs mostly with Quaker State 10W-30 and a Fram filter.

 

[Linctex]

Originally Posted by atikovi

236K 2001 Honda Insight

That's about what my 4.6 liter F150 looks like at 192,000 miles

 

[addyguy]

Originally Posted by Number_35
2001 Mazda Protege 1.6. Photo taken in 2012 during a timing belt change. About 180K km (c. 110K miles) on the car, with oil changes twice a year (averaging perhaps 8K - 10K km [5K - 6K miles]) from 2005/66K km on. Mobil 1 5W-30 used most of the time.

Had this exact engine in a 1994 323 hatchback. Beat the heck out of it, and hardly changed the oil, really busy period of life.
Ran like a top, never had any engine issues. Great engine!

 

[MolaKule]

I don't have any pictures of the inside of any of my engines since I have not had a reason to pull the heads or do any internal work per se, but I have shown a very bright LED flashlight into the fill spouts and all of my engines are spotless with no varnish anywhere.

That includes a 1999 S-10 Vortec 4.3L V6, Nissan frontier 4.0L V6, and a Pathfinder 2015 3.5L V6.

I attribute the cleanliness to adhering to Severe Service Intervals and no OTC additives.

 

[Whimsey]

I replaced the VC gasket at 103,000 miles on my 1996 Contour 2.0L Zetec and took these pics. I think it looks "somewhat" clean

. I used Motorcraft blend, Schaeffer's blend and synthetic Pennzoil and Mobil 1. OC's were 5,000 mi with the blends and up to ~8,000+ miles with the synthetics.

Whimsey

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

Originally Posted by bdcardinal
O it has lived on Motorcraft 5W50 and FL-500S filters. changed every 5K miles its whole life.

Why would you use an oil filter that people claim is inferior because the filter media "SUPPOSEDLY" tears?

<---People claiming the MC filter is inferior

 

[kschachn]

It is downright amazing the level of self-imposed ignorance some people choose to live in. I honestly cannot understand it.

Of course I don't create a doppelgänger for me to reply to myself either, so maybe that has something to do with it.

 

[GaryPoe]

Originally Posted by Talent_Keyhole
GM 2.4l, Ecotec, with GDI, 89K miles, on quick lube oil changes and following the bogus Oil Life Monitor. This was taken during a timing chain replacement. Thankful it only slipped a few teeth and did not destroy the pistons and valves.

So we have an oil related engine failure and nobody acknowledges? Funny. Where are all the "oil will never cause an engine to fail" people at on this one?

 

[Number_35]

Originally Posted by addyguy
Originally Posted by Number_35
2001 Mazda Protege 1.6. Photo taken in 2012 during a timing belt change. About 180K km (c. 110K miles) on the car, with oil changes twice a year (averaging perhaps 8K - 10K km [5K - 6K miles]) from 2005/66K km on. Mobil 1 5W-30 used most of the time.

Had this exact engine in a 1994 323 hatchback. Beat the heck out of it, and hardly changed the oil, really busy period of life.
Ran like a top, never had any engine issues. Great engine!
Rust got the car at around 245K km and 15 years - I think the engine would have run forever.