Well I'm sure I'm going to get a few people nuts but here goes.

While some people say that buying Volvo fiters may be the most wonderful filters in the world ($7.00 a piece) I have used that 'orange kiss of death' on all my cars at a K-mart price of $2.99. So Fram is NOT more expensive! My Volvo has 168k on the odometer, My Chevy pickup has 239K and my Jeep CJ5 has 212K on the odometer. NONE of these engines have been torn down and overhauled!!

At more than twice the price, and me changing oil every 300 miles, I am changing oil and filters literaly ever other month on each car. It adds up. With all the mileage on different make cars, my cars are kissed but not with death by these orange critters.

Milky look:

This is something I did on an old beater to clear up its incredibley gummy looking and milky valve rockers. It worked I don't know how i feel about it BUT here goes.

Diesel fuel has a lubricant in it yet it is of very low viscosity, What I did to remove this mud from my engines internals was to run the car up to temperture, dump the oil, Fill it up with 4 quarts of diesel fuel and ran it at an idle in the driveway for 15 minutes. The thought was that the fuel would breakup that mud and at the same time provide enough lube. to keep me out of trouble. The crap that came out after that was short of amazing, I did it again six months later but in the meantime I changed oil in normal intervals. The car lasted for 3 more years until my brother thought a guardrail needed customizing.

If you don't do 3000 mile oil changes, start doing that first and see if that clears you out. This car I played with was just bought and was LOADED with crap under those valve covers. When I went with the diesel game.