Carbon build up

Shannen Durphey shannen at grolen.com
Tue Jan 26 11:42:00 GMT 1999


Walnut shell blasting is the recommended fix.  Can be done on the
vehicle if there's enough access to the intake ports. Like
sandblasting, but the crushed shells are harmless to the engine.  Any
in tank "miracle cures"  would be working a true miracle if they
helped this situation.  
Shannen

> 
> ----------
> <snip>
> > According to a service bulletin, the 3.8l engine suffers from carbon
> > accumulation on the back of the intake valve which significantly
> > reduces performance.
> 
> How to remove this carbon ?
> Possible with the myriad of 'carbon blast' type of miracle cures,
> you know the cans of cleaners etc,run 'em through the engine
> while running or pull the heads?
> Geoff




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