sludge
You have emulsification in the oil... usually caused by deficient services and continued swaps with what ever oil-of-the-day that doesn't mix well with other formulas that have been used over and over. Add enough time without maintenance it would become sludge. With that said, your new oil and the detergents therein are doing thier job and cleaning up the crap.
Real sludge you remove with a scraper. A very poorly maintained engine with cheap and multi-brands of oil mixtures oil can be washed out with cleaner and new oil detergents as you are discovering.
Your filter is undoubtably clogged up at this point otherwise it would be filtering out that dense emulsion. Change the oil and filter with good stuff. Drive 2 weeks and do it again.
IndyDurango
Real sludge you remove with a scraper. A very poorly maintained engine with cheap and multi-brands of oil mixtures oil can be washed out with cleaner and new oil detergents as you are discovering.
Your filter is undoubtably clogged up at this point otherwise it would be filtering out that dense emulsion. Change the oil and filter with good stuff. Drive 2 weeks and do it again.
IndyDurango
Last edited by IndyDurango; Jan 14, 2010 at 09:24 PM.
Safe only if you let that oil do it's job on the detergent side, drain and replace filter, and continue the process until you have it clean. If you have to spend $50 in two extra oil swaps over the next month, that's cheap insurance.
IndyD
IndyD
BTW<-----Nice 5 point Mule deer.
hey ya'll. I wanted to get some input on what ya'll thought this was. I was checking the engine and making sure that everything was ok. I was bored. anyways. I opened the oil cap and found this.
Last edited by jaz27; Jan 9, 2011 at 03:16 AM.








said. Change oil and filter a couple more times to clean out the old oil. Preventive maintenance is always good.

