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Old 05-06-2004, 09:09 PM
AndyRM AndyRM is offline
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Slow oil drain

I am about to purchase my second 240D. The first thing I did on my first one was drop the oil pan to clean out any sludge. There wasn't a bit after 240,000 miles. I spoke with the previous owner, who was the original, and he advised that the pan had never been off. He said he used Pennzoil 15W40 every 3000 miles. One of the things I did while I had the pan off was to spray the inside of it with an electrical insulator paint called Glyptal. After that the oil came out like a horse doing you know what on a flat rock. Many performance engine builders have used this paint for years because it causes the oil to drain quickly back to the pan and it keeps the surfaces to slick for sludge to build up on them. Since the pan on a 240 is so easy to access and the gasket surface is completely flat it doesn't add all that much time to an oil change.

Andy
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