My oil is grey and gritty!

[Zero Signal]

It has lost the usual dark brown/black, clean consistancy. Now it's more grey and has a grittiness to it that it never had before. I'm going to do a compression test once I get the valvetrain back together and see if I may be losing my rings.

I've done 2 oil changes in the past 100 miles just to try to clean it out. I've been thinking of hooking up the drill to the oil pump and pumping clean oil through for a half hour with some magnets on the pan, then changing the oil and repeating a couple times, to see if it cleans it out some. Do they have cleaning additives for such a thing??

I'm just kind of worried that the motor may be grinding down to it's death at an alarming rate

 

[Swarzkopf]

Sounds like you're seeing alot of bearing material in the oil...

 

[HISSIN50]

John, what happened with the dizzy gear issue?

I would get an uncontaminated sample and send it to Blackstone for a reading. It can take a while to get the sample container in the mail (I wonder if the Kenmore/Cat dealer on the frontage road near Prince does UOA's and would have the container?).

I like the magnet idea. Neodynium magnets are super duper strong.

 

[mo_dingo]

John, what happened with the dizzy gear issue?

I would get an uncontaminated sample and send it to Blackstone for a reading. It can take a while to get the sample container in the mail (I wonder if the Kenmore/Cat dealer on the frontage road near Prince does UOA's and would have the container?).

I like the magnet idea. Neodynium magnets are super duper strong.

Yeah they use them at my work to retain metal awning wraps, and the glue they use sucks. So the always come off. I have a stack of 15 at work at least. Remind me if you want them this weekend John.
Scott

 

[Zero Signal]

I still need to talk to CompCams and/or MSD to see what they recommend for the dizzy gear.

As for sending the oil off for analysis, I thought of doing that. I'll look into shipping methods.

 

[HISSIN50]

John, the containers they supply are deemed safe for sending through USPS and postage should be under 2 bucks.

 

[wytstang]

And Blackstone send the container free you just have to send the sample in with $20 check/MO/cash and they do the testing. I'm getting reading to do an oil change and send out a sample.

 

[Zero Signal]

I'm gonna skip that step . . . I've concluded that it's magical iron dust. I dipped a telescoping magnet in the oil and pulled out all kinds of fun ferrous stuff

 

[urban96]

have you cut open the oil filter to check that out at all?