They are caked
with oil sludge and carbon build up.
Not exact matches
Illustrated
with the author's photographs, Infrastructure reveals a strange beauty in objects such as the egglike
sludge digesters at a Boston sewage treatment plant, the tangled pipes of an
oil refinery, and the wooden water towers perched atop the roofs of New York City.
The industry found itself saddled
with a waste problem, the leftover
sludge from soy -
oil manufacture which it could either dump or promote.
After the double extraction and solvent extraction, a sticky soapy
sludge develops on top of the
oil as a result of churning the phosphatides (when you work soap into a lather, your churning the phosphatides
with water creating the foam).
When you drain
oil out of the pan, you are taking some of the
sludge out
with it, which is a good thing for obvious reasons.
Otherwise the water (and whatever else) that has collected
with the
oil in't removed and can lead to
oil sludge.
You can check if your shocker does needs replacing quite easily, one way you can check is by looking at the shocker, you can usually get your head in under the rear wheel and look up, look out for any
oil running down the shocker or
sludge build up (shock absorber
oil mixed
with road muck).
Always keep up
with regular
oil changes; it will help prevent
sludge build up in the engine.
service engine light on, pulled p0011 code, change bank 1 solenoid and check engine light came back on in same amount of time it came on
with old solenoid also.spoke to few mechanics and 1 said they need to clean potential dirty
oil and another mechanic said it could be timing and another mechanic said he open
oil cap and
with a flashlight looked inside engine and said it looks clean and probably not engine
sludge.
Randy («GLHS60») wrote about engine
sludge as observed on the dipstick and PCV etc.,
with the final straw being the
oil light flashing, engine ticking, running eratically, and stalling:
Check for signs of
sludge under the
oil filler cap
with the engine off.
ExxonMobil's Pegasus rupture also helped underscore the environmental hazards associated
with diluted bitumen, or dilbit, which is the combination of thick
sludge - like
oil, which tends to sink in water, and volatile solvents that evaporate and pollute the air.