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Old December 19th 04, 05:17 AM
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:52:15 -0700, "Larry Crites"
> wrote:

>I don't have sludging problems. Maybe my oil, filter and maintenance
>combinations work. I don't use Pennzoil. Here's one oil that creates sludge.
>I've seen it sludge up rebuilt engines in no time. I just can't bring myself
>to buy a foreign manufacturer's vehicle.
>
>Larry
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For me, that "foreign manufacturer" builts Corollas only a few miles
from my home, and many people in my town make their living there.
Another major "foreign manufacturer" (Honda) builds vehicles just over
100km away in Aliston Ont - and there are a significant number of jobs
in our area supplying parts etc for that plant as well.

Then there is tha "German" company, that builds cars in Bramalea, also
within 100km of here, as well as in Windor, Belvedere Ind., Mexico,
and at least a dozen other places - the company formerly known as
Chrysler.
>
>"toyota1" > wrote in message
alkaboutautos.com...
>| larry, the problem with the 2.7 is that the oil pickup and passages in the
>| cylinder heads are too small and it causes a large amount of sludge to
>| form, thus reducing the oil flow to the top end, and damaging timing chain
>| and valve train. as these are an interference engine, if the timing chain
>| breaks, pistons hit valves, and so on.. ive seen 2.7s with 40k miles on up
>| to 120k miles fail. it all depends on the maintenance of the vehicle.
>sorry
>| you feel that way about toyotas, but my truck with 200k miles and original
>| engine, etc, is much more impressive than my dodge intrepid 2.7 that
>| failed with 45k miles on it, and my dodge truck (used to have) that the
>| transmission failed at 70k, and both had had oil changes done every 4k
>| miles since new, trans fluid flush every 25k. it now has a 3.2 with almost
>| 20k miles and is running perfectly.
>|
>


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