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Oil system flush?

02-03-2004, 03:15 PM

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Johnstra

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Oil system flush?

I just finished cleaning a bunch of trash out of my old plow truck's (Toyota 4x4) oil pan and oil pick-up line. I'm truly amazed how much garbage was in there - no metal that I could detect, just a bunch of crud.

I'd like to give the oil passages a good flushing as I'm sure at least some of that crud got past the filter. Anyone have any suggestions for how to do that? I've heard diesel can be mixed in with the oil to clean oil passages, but I don't know how much to put in.

Thanks,
-john

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