Part 1 ---> http://www.clubvr4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43168
Bought one more 96 Legnum VR4 recently for £700... Around 50tm on the clock. The first impression: LOT of lash adjusters was dead, but it drove fine. Just ticked like hell... Checked the engine oil - not much left
Opened cam covers to change adjusters - what I saw underneath looked exactly like pictures from Kelly&Ben's thread above! The engine oil was turned into a burned dirt... Aha. That's why it was so chaep!
My thought: the engine oil is also supposed to clean the internals, so I cleaned adjusters, removed as much of the dirt as I could from the heads and poured fresh oil in there...
Result: adjusters got quiet, I was happy... for a while. A month, maybe
Yesterday: suddenly... Lash adjusters went from very quiet to EXTREMLY loud in one second... Seemed to be the rear bank, of course...
Opened the rear cam cover... The one cam was absolutely dry. There was no sign of oil on it! All lash adjusters on that cam was stone dead. Another cam was still breathing, but wasn't in best shape ever
I think: OIL BLOCKAGE
Now, the question: I don't really want to loose this engine, but is there anything I can to to clean this mess up? Any flush, that will do this very heavy job? Pressurised air?! Anyone tried flush of this dimentions and got away with it?