Water in the oil

[ruskie34e36]

Originally Posted by JCL

There is no simple rule of thumb. You need to get it hot, and then keep it hot long enough to boil off the moisture. How much moisture depends on the ambient temperature. How fast you boil it off depends on oil temperature.

I would start with a 30 minute drive, hot, once per week, but I would watch to see if that does it based on the paste accumulating or not.

Thanks,
I'll update this here when i do some testing. Temps are up to high 40s now, so my guess is that some of the cold spells we had is what caused the excessive build up, aside from the lack of long trips.


Although, I haven't checked for any build up after a long (8hr) trip we took. Was about to leave town for a couple of weeks a couple of days after, and thats when I saw the build up.