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Should I worry about sludge? (Photos link inside)
Posted by hanesj75 [Email] (more from hanesj75) on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:40:13
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Hey all,
I've been thinking about getting one of Bob Bright's oil pans installed on my 2000 Gary Fisher wagon with the B235 2.3L with 137k. We bought this car cheap, without much of a service history, because it checked out at the mechanic and seemed to be in decent shape overall. Of course there may be sludge, even though previous owned said he always used synthetic and it had quite a few highway miles.
ANYway, I can't readily get at the oil pickup tube (of course) and haven't tried the wire-scrape-in-the-pan trick yet, but I took the valve cover off last night to see what there is to see.
I posted pictures of what I saw below. Basically, it looks pretty darn clean to me. The inside of the engine cover by the chain has a perfectly distributed "carbonized oil" layer that actually looks almost like powder coating to me (I guess in a way it is). But the sprockets, camshafts, etc... all look pretty sludge-free to me.
Should I seriously be considering the oil pan, or do you think I'm probably OK? Obviously it'd probably be best to have one, but we're talking a lot of money on a relatively inexpensive car (almost 15% of the purchase price of the car), but not as much as a new (rebuilt, whatever) engine.
Thanks, as always.
-John
Indianapolis, IN
Saabnet gallery of my B235 under the valve cover
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