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Oil Sludge-2002 Ford Explorer-Miles 93874

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PanDora8
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Jun 5, 2007, 7:07 AM

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UnsureSomeone please HELP!!!!! Can or Does oil sludge found in the oil pan and the oil pickup screen cause a motor to SEIZE...accordinig to the repair garage...the timing chain guides broke and that's what cause the seize....someone PLEASE ADVISE....THANKS!!!!!
I'm being Jacked by the warranty company..PLEASE HELP!!!!!


Tom Greenleaf
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Jun 5, 2007, 7:37 AM

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Yes. Plugged up oil pick up screen would cause low oil pressure throughout and could seize the engine just like running out of oil. Sludge would be blamed on lack on proper maintenance and justified.

If a warranty company is trying to get out of this for that reason they should be able to prove excessive sludge and actually there should be about NONE with a cared for engine. If you ignored warnings like low oil pressure I'd say it's then damage that could have been avoided which points to whomever was responsible for caring for the vehicle.

It can be a battle and you may have to show that you did maintain the vehicle,

T



PanDora8
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Jun 5, 2007, 7:51 AM

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Tom,
Thanks for your reply....just a note...there was NO low oil pressure...the oil was changed 3 weeks before...the oil in the engine was clean. The oil dropped just before the engine seized as I was driving. Would not the Dealership that did the oil change have noticed a problem with sludge at the time? I've only had the truck (1) year...how many oil changes should there be in one year? (approx).

Thank you so much for your help,

Della
I'm being Jacked by the warranty company..PLEASE HELP!!!!!


Tom Greenleaf
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Jun 5, 2007, 8:30 AM

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The oil coming out might not be an indicator. It should be a little dirty as it is cleaning up in the engine. Oil that never gets dirty probably isn't doing its job.

Oil schedules listed in owner's manual may vary. The rule of thumb is 3 months or 3,000 miles -- some allow more miles. You may see 7,500 or so miles in a manual but look closer. That is for what they call "normal" driving?? I've yet to meet that situation! Extreme is simply high or low temps, short trips etc., which pretty much puts all of us in the rough service catagory.

Sludge will build up when oil is worn out or overheated while worn out and stick like colesteral does to arteries and is fine until it is so much that chunks get moved along and the oil filter won't catch them or hold all that much. Even a sludged engine when you bought it can be corrected to a great degree by just on time oil and filter changes. If fast flush products are used it just throws fudgy junk too fast and little oil passages get plugged and it's the beginning of the end by then.

You generally don't get that much sludge in one year of doing nothing to an engine so you must have inherited some of it if not all. The insurance of an extended warranty is a gamble by you and them with a used car. They have know losses that are predictable and far below what you pay for extended warranty all of which will deny for neglect.

If you knowingly drove the vehicle with low oil pressure it really would be your fault for not minimizing damage.

This can be big bad insurance against YOU. YOU have to fight back with info that you did your job and it's now their bad luck to have to pay out. Perhaps nobody knew of a sludge problem when you bought it. Hard to say now.

You may need written opinions by mechanics as to the source of the problem and some will shy away from that if you plan to take it to court they would perhaps be required to show up and they don't want that.

In cases I've known of the customer has almost always won out so long as you acted in good faith. Good luck. It stinks but now it's your problem to prove some things,

T






 
 
 






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