Will a barrel of engine flush clean a sludgy engine?

I have no idea how I got onto this Russian car maintenance channel.. But as a car maintenance lover.. I loved the video.

Great video on how engine flush can clean an engine. The big point that needs to be informed to others, that the sludged up engine surely has suffered excessive wear do to negligence. No matter how how clean you can get it back, the wear can't be restored without an a expensive rebuid. Prevention is cheaper than Correction. Change your oil often.

I wish you had opened each filter, to see how much of the filter media was plugged.

If it can clean under the valve cover like that imagine how good its cleaning all the oil passages.

Do they have an endless supply of ladas?

I bought a Toyota Celica but 130,000 miles on it transmission fluid never changed. My mechanic said that tranny is done it’s slipping. I change the fluid seven times in a row and drove it another 150 thousand miles perfectly. Easy to do with a drain plug

Was hoping the pan would be removed prior to the first flush and after the last flush. To see the bottom end of the engine as well, before and after.

I took a magnum in a dodge...over 500,000 km. I ran sea foam engine cleaner throught the throttlebody C.F.I and placed one liter of transmission fluid in the oil in the crankcase ran it awhile an changed it out for synthetic oil after. That truck is now on 573,000 km without blue smoke or grey. Still runs well🙂Crazy stuff.

This really showed your question which was how much will this remove. It was obvious. Very good real information. Thanks.

If you live in the USA get a a 12oz bottle or 1 gallon jug of Schaeffers 131. It is officaly sold as a fuel additive but has for the past 30 years listed an engine purge on the back of the bottle. Start with 1oz per quart of oil 500 to 800 miles before you change the oil. After the first one next time do 2oz per quart 1000 miles before oil change. I have gone as high as 4oz per quart in really dirty engines. Never used it in badly sludged engines but have been using it for 20+ years. Works great on used Toyota's and European cars that have had 10,000 mile oil changes and are full of thick heavy varnish. Normaly the first flush will remove 50% of the varnish to the naked eye. Once you have it clean it is easy to put 4oz in it once a year or every other year to keep it clean.

When I was a kid, my grandfather filled an engine with diesel ran it for a little bit and flushed. It took the valve covers off again. It was clean.

Seigei's job is what a mechanic's hell is all about, over and over again, oil changes for eternity

Drain 1qt, add 2pt diesel 1c methanol, 1c ammonia. Ammonia is a great emulsifier but it is not miscible with oil but it is with methanol. Methanol is also missable with oil. Use this on the first flush, let run at idle for 30 minutes, allow to drain for 20 minutes remove the oil cap when you do so that any residual ammonia vapor can escape. Second flush add one quart of diesel to the oil, let it run for at least 20 minutes then drain and remove your oil filter and put a new one on. There will not be any sludge left. It will look like you steam cleaned it. Nothing but shiny metal. Another cheap solution that gets the same results but takes longer... At one quart of transmission fluid 300 mi before your oil change. Transmission fluid has detergents that do the same thing but it's weaker and takes longer in addition transmission fluid is hydraulic oil and will emulsify sludge but again it takes longer. Both of these are great solutions that don't cost that much and work as well if not better than seafoams and over the counter engine flushes.

An inspection of rod and main bearings BEFOR AND AFTER the test would be great.

These guys do the kind of things others are scared to do. Creativity at its best.

I love this kind of before and after. Keep up the great work guys!

Bearing wear, before and after would be interesting too.... flushing all particles loose will also make it into the bearings, oil filter will not catch it all.

I've seen people do this engine flush and break stuff loose and ruin the engine. sometimes it takes that stuff awhile to work and everything breaks free and you don't know it until the bearings are scored,and the lifters are plugged! You gotta remember alot of people dont change their oil ever,it happens more than you think ,people lie about it for some reason? then you buy the piece of crap vehicle and try to run this stuff in there and kaboom!

Another amazing video by Garage 54!!!!

Found this channel from the thumb nail, glad I did, love this sort of thing