Bored surfing yields weird advice...comments?

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <0716D052C1CFD0119D280060979FBE9A49C9@a1.matrix.com.pl> Aleksander Mierzwa writes:

> On the Acura Legend enthusiasts' web page I found an advice that adding
> ATF to the oil just before oil change helps to quiet down hydraulic
> tappets (looks like Legends have this problem, too).

Humfph.

I change my oil regularly - but when I changed the lifters I was appalled at 
what drained out of them - a jet-black fluid with the consistency and 
appearance of water from a peat bog.

I actually found myself wondering whether it would be worthwhile, on alternate 
oil changes, to lift them out and drain them ...

Then I mused this aloud to Martin at BR Motorsport.  He looked around to see if 
anyone (including his boss, I suspect) was looking and then suggested the 
following (engine hot):
 
a) Drain the oil.
 
b) Remove the filter.
 
c) Remove the plugs.
 
d) Ground the HT lead from the coil.
 
e) Pull the fuel pump relay.
 
f) Spin the engine twice on the starter, each time for five seconds with
   a half-minute gap.
 
g) Replace, rebuild and refill.
    
I haven't tried this.  I think I might, at the next oil change.  I suspect the 
effect is not much different to what happens when you use a non-turbo (i.e., 
no anti-drainback valve) filter.  The lifter oilways will drain out, and the 
first few lifter actions will pump oil _out_ of the lifters, not in.

-- 
 Phil Payne
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club