Diesel in crankcase

[malsup83]

I was at the co-op today buying a couple tires for my wife's car. While there I was asking about an issue I'm having about excessive blown.

So the guy told me that at my next oil change to get the engine a quart low and add a quart of diesel and it will help clean everything better than seafoam. Then change the oil.

So has anyone ever heard or tried this before. I've got a 2014 ram 2500 with a 5.7 hemi.

 

[Wild one]

I was at the co-op today buying a couple tires for my wife's car. While there I was asking about an issue I'm having about excessive blown.

So the guy told me that at my next oil change to get the engine a quart low and add a quart of diesel and it will help clean everything better than seafoam. Then change the oil.

So has anyone ever heard or tried this before. I've got a 2014 ram 2500 with a 5.7 hemi.

Old school trick,another one that was common was adding a quart of ATF tranny fluid.Whether either worked is questionable though,lol.Supposedly you were supposed to drive the vehicle for a 100 miles or so for the detergents in either to clean the engine,just don't beat on it,drive it like your grandmother would,lol.

 

[malsup83]

The whole idea of it sounding crazy. I thought he was joking at first. He says he does it to his Tahoe here and there. It's got 300,000 miles on it. I thought my 200,000 was a lot.

Looked it up and wasn't finding much, but found a video of a guy testing it on a lawnmower. He did straight 10-30, then 100% diesel and finally a mixture.

I'm skeptical and afraid to try it. My just do a bottle of seafoam and let it idle for a while instead of 100ish miles like I did a week ago.

 

[joshuaedmister]

The whole idea of it sounding crazy. I thought he was joking at first. He says he does it to his Tahoe here and there. It's got 300,000 miles on it. I thought my 200,000 was a lot.

Looked it up and wasn't finding much, but found a video of a guy testing it on a lawnmower. He did straight 10-30, then 100% diesel and finally a mixture.

I'm skeptical and afraid to try it. My just do a bottle of seafoam and let it idle for a while instead of 100ish miles like I did a week ago.

For Tahoes, if it's a 5.3 or a 6.0 it'll last 400-500k if regular fluid changes and not doing burnouts and the such, I'm more familiar with them than I am a hemi but as far as diesel in the oil goes, I don't do it unless I see alot of buildup in my valve covers, even then I don't ever go more than 15-30 minutes idling with the diesel in it, also since its a short time I go a little overfull (about half a quart) to "splash the corners" but diesel will react to the o-rings different than motor oil is the main reason you don't want to run too long with it, atf I've tried a time or two but never had any real cleaning success, and you want to change oil filter of course after, apparently there's some people who only change it every third oil change, don't trust 'em

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