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Old Feb 18, 2004 | 04:05 PM
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I took off my valvecover today and there is light brown sludge all over the inside of it. It looks like light brown grease. My compression was fine - all within 10% variance. My car is not blowing any white smoke and the oil on the dipstick was fine. What could it be?
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Old Feb 18, 2004 | 05:05 PM
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change your oil more often.
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Old Feb 18, 2004 | 06:19 PM
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Condensation.
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Old Feb 18, 2004 | 06:21 PM
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Stop eating peanuts.
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Old Feb 18, 2004 | 06:51 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by non-VTEC &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">change your oil more often.
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oil was changed 1000 km's ago - i use motul 8100
there was a lot of this grease stuff - covered the whole inside of valvecover
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Old Feb 18, 2004 | 06:52 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by MightyMouseTech &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Condensation.
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can you explain please?
(the original post was under friend's account)
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Old Feb 19, 2004 | 07:14 AM
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anyone?
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Old Feb 19, 2004 | 11:01 PM
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haha - nevermind - car got stolen tonight... ******* hate this ghetto city
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Old Feb 19, 2004 | 11:12 PM
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Your oil gallys are clogged
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