Glitter in 6.2L oil ... please help

[thefrey]

.... And it's the cleaning I hate the most.

Checks out.

 

[rdezs]

Doesn't that new timing cover looks so much better than one that you can only get about 80% clean? Aluminum gets a certain patina to it after a couple years, but I suppose you could spend an hour polishing it.

 

[rdezs]

.... And that was for the neighbor. He was a bit impatient to get it on the road, so we cut a few corners where possible.... Like not cleaning the bolt heads. (At least he let me clean the threads on the wire wheel!) But on the flip side, he was all on board with going with the ARP head bolts.

 

[rdezs]

By the way..... Regarding OEM versus aftermarket.... He went with the Dorman harmonic balancer. Quite a bit less than genuine GM, and hey, making one of those isn't rocket science. And that's one of those things you run across while you're in there, in this case he had a nice groove from the seal on his OEM balancer.