Snake Oil!

MOPEkidD-3 said
Is it hard to pull the lifters and clean them out? I had a stuck pumped-down lifter on my 318 and just pulled it through the heads and cleaned it out.

On a on a Jeep 4.0 L the head has to come off. Is it impossible? Heck no, but you never know what you might run into and it is my daily driver. I'd prefer to do this when I have a week off just incase I have to have the head re-surfaced.

fishy68 said
Sorry to take up space with my story Ramcharger. Just thought you all might get a kick out of it.:-D

No problem at all Tracy! That's what this thread is for, to share some experiences. I think of it as inviting you guys into my garage to get your opinions. How could a story or two not be told? :)

tyler_s18 said
i heard once on a port fuel injected motor they cleaned the carbon off the valves and when they did it all the sludge and carbon went into the cylinder and it hydro locked the engine like half way up on the compression stroke and it bent the rods at severe angles and in multiple places. sounded way bad. because of this kinda thing i am hesitant of putting 'quick' cleaners in my motor. i like the 'bg44k' cleaner for the fuel because it works good and takes a little longer. thats not for lifters but something like that sounds a little safer to me.

BG44 does work pretty well as a combustion chamber/valve cleaner. I used some prior to pulling the head on my 4Runner and I could see the carbon peeling off the piston tops in large flakes.

HevD said
Seafoam is the best thing since sliced bread! It seems pretty common in MN, you can grab it at the grocery store, gas station, wal-mart, etc... I use it as a fuel stabilizer, cleaner, hell I think you could mix it with rum and Coke and it wouldn't be half bad. (Not sure if that use is printed on the bottle.) The stuff is a must have!!

Well, three days later this thing is pretty dang quiet. I fired it up this morning and heard barely any ticking at all while I was scraping ice from the windshield. I guess it's bought me some time.

I found a builder '91 4.0L HO on craigslist for 50 bucks. I think I'll pick it up and just rebuild the whole dang thing and be done with it. Maybe even add a stroker kit and bring this thing up to 4.5 L. :)