Not yet got round to changing the oil on my zed yet and it has been stood for god knows how long the engine is a little noisy, once the oil is changed do you reckon it will sought out the tapping noise.

Im also going for a de-cat do you reckon this could put more pressure on the turbo's.

A fresh oil / filter and a good drive usually sorts noisy lifters

 

A decat seems to stress turbo seals a bit more but I have had no problems at all.

I used to make the mistake of underestimating just how important oil is. (Years ago)

 

Simply put, I would not drive the car with old dirty oil that I had no idea about. Ever.

Oil is much cheaper than engines

Especially without a nice cooler! :o

lol trying to sought out my finances for the cooler from you mate. I have resigned to going to billing on the weekend of the 13 and it wont be cheap. Hoping that a few oil changes in succsesion will sought out my lifter problem.I wont drive her now till its done.

The other cooler was for my auto box as an upgrade on the standard one, b4 I start upgrading the chip, injectors ect ect. So not in any serious rush for that just yet. However I do want to get stuck into some of these meets, shows, weekends ect.

Drain the oil leave old filter on, give the engine a good flush with diesel letting it run for 5-10 mins, drain the diesel and add fresh diesel again run for 5 mins, drain diesel replace oil filter and add good quality oil, lovely clean oil.

 

If you de-cat you want to make sure you have at leasy £1500 spare for replacing turbo's if the seals should blow, its a 50/50 chance you take de-catting to wheather the seals go or not

I'll leave the de-cat then.

Thanks mate

Drain the oil leave old filter on, give the engine a good flush with diesel letting it run for 5-10 mins, drain the diesel and add fresh diesel again run for 5 mins, drain diesel replace oil filter and add good quality oil, lovely clean oil.

 

If you de-cat you want to make sure you have at leasy £1500 spare for replacing turbo's if the seals should blow, its a 50/50 chance you take de-catting to wheather the seals go or not

 

Diesel? No kidding, does this really help to clean out the engine? I am always a bit concerned with putting oil cleaners through my engine as I worry that they will eat some seal or remove the built up crud which is keeping a seal tight.

thats exactly what I worry about its ok on fairly new engines ie an honest 60,000 and below ,however mine has done 120,000 + miles even though the limiter is still on the car and it looks and feels new. Stripping away the build up in the engine can cause alsoughts of future problems regarding the engine.

IMHO, with oils as good as they now are, and have been for many years now, and assuming a reasonable level of servicing, if not as per the book, there really should not be any great build up of deposits inside your engine.

 

Sure there will be a "dirty residue" but not great amounts of Goo as you used to find. So the problem of cleaning the engine and then having problems should not arise, and if it does, your problems were just round the corner anyway.

 

As I said, IMHO.

mines decatted and not a single issue with anything yet (fingers crossed) and its been done 2 years!

There was a survey on this de-cat smoke/no smoke thing.

 

Maybe its time for another one, especially as I need to get rid of my cats but dont want the smoke thing, also, how much more noise does it make? (the exhaust).

 

IIRC the outcome was most did not have any problems.