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With
an engine flush you run the risk of loosening enough large particles of
sludge that the oil pump pick-up screen becomes plugged thereby starving
your engine of oil. You also increase the risk of having your engine
develop oil leaks.
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Many engines do not need that sort of a flush as long as they were well maintained.
As for effects- how long did you plan to run it in the engine and at what concentration? If jsut short term- you run the risk of dislodging pieces large enough to clog passages in cam followers or their pivots depending on engine design. You will certainly run the risk of scoring the cam or worse the crank.
The real problem is if the oil that had been run in the engine previous had a high parafinnic content, this tends to deposit on surfaces and does not simply wash away with a little diesel. These require an engine teardown and actual scraping of the casting. I have been there and done that on more than one ocaission.
It is possible too that if such a parafinnic deposit is softened by diesel, it may soften enough to seep down to the sump where the oil pickup and screen are and actually block up the screen.
There is also the risk that some seal with that sludge behind it was able to maintain a seal to the pressure of the material, only to leak when that material has softened.
It has been my experience that those types of flushes are not really accomplishing anything. They are not going to undue previous neglect, nor are they going to significantly reduce the buildup of years of certain oils' use.
If it is not brokem- do not try to fix it- otherwise you may just end up having to fix it in a very expensive manner. Especially if it is an older engine.
If you have a newer engine- just use a high quality oil that is known to NOT produce deposits. In otherwords a low paraffininc oil.
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