I did a piston soak on a hot engine and left overnight, done by several here on youtube. Definitely slowed down the consumption by 2 quarts per oil change. The consumption came on fast at around 84k. Now, I'm pushing 88k and only added on Quart. It worked for me using 2 bottles of b12 chemtool. Added one bottle after arriving home, and the other after a few hours. I got good results, Oh 2014 audi a6 2.0t. Naptown Tuner, thank you for all of the good info and videos on maintaining our Audi's.
Dude, I am at near 120K now, did the piston soak at 112.7K miles after experiencing a qt consumption every 350-400 miles. Since then I haven't had to add oil between the first 5k oil change or after. I brought up this oil consumption issue at my Audi dealer and got blown off, I brought to car to an Independent shop and they just 50 weight in, no change. So afterwards I get this class action lawsuit settlement notice that if I had had my engine repaired before a certain mileage, I could qualify for reimbursement of a percent based on that mileage. So I get zero, not even a check to pay for all that oil my engine burned.
@@salvagerebuilds9071 Yes, but I am sure most don't know as much about the Audi 2.0T as Naptown Tuner. Just the fact he even tried to see what it would do is a good thing in my opinion because he knows the "right way" is to replace the pistons and rings. That's all I am saying.
We need to see a video of you actually saving one through this method, I think filling cylinders and letting it sit multiple days before restart could be more effective
I did this over a two week period, started before going out of town and completed it upon returning. Major caution to relay, the B-12 loosen up so much carbon in my engine that the slurry ended up collecting in the downward side of the cylinders, causing the piston to be jammed up against the cylinder head with the carbon preventing the turning over of the engine at top dead center. I had to use some leverage (cheater bar) to get it past TDC and then created a method of removing the debris, I used a rod with some weed Whacker string, a drill to spin it and solvent to which I would suck it out with my oil extractor.
Why would it matter if the heads are on or not it’s doing the same thing draining through the rings then out the engine I’m sure your not gonna run the engine with that in there it’s supposed to be drained rite out
I used 2 cans, split them equally. Let it sit for over 24 hrs. Started the car up. Yes it missfired for some time but after 15 ish minutes it started to run good. (I used old Spark plugs). Then put in new plugs and did an oil change. Customer complained he was loosing a quart every 200km. After the flush 1000km later oil level did not change!!!
My A4 was drinking oil, and misfiring at idle, long story short, did the piston soak and voila.. all was cleaned, no more misfire, and oil consumption is history! The funny thing is that one shop told me that I needed a new engine back then 😂!
Honestly I believe we should be able to do a mass recall on these and Audi and Volkswagen specifically Audi should have to do the repairs it's stupid how much fucking oil I go through because of this
After the b12 piston soak run a liqui moly ceretec additive. I've got over 200,000 miles (20,000 miles since piston soak and still going strong) went from burning oil so bad that I could see a blue cloud hang in the air leaving stop signs " about a qt every 300 miles" now my 2012 uses about a quarter of a quart in 3,000 miles
So are all four (4) pistons still connected to the crank? The short block is still fully assembled, all you did was pull the head and you soaked the cylinders? What piston are you showing us with the 50% cleaned pinholes in the control ring? Is that from a different project where you were soaking the fouled up pistons? So is this the routine Berrymans B12? This is really great stuff to save me from pulling a motor for a piston job on a M5 BMW burning a quart every 525mi .. I can pull the heads and try this, my buddy will sure appreciate it if it’ll open up the rings
I didn’t have success with the b12 chemtool that’s more like carb cleaner. This is chem dip that you dip carburetors in. The pin hole piston is the 09-11 worst design… the one I showed is from testing outside the car soaking sideways to see if it was going to work and safe for the wear liner. I could take this engine apart and inspect after the soak or I could just drive it and see. This engine has over 200k bent valves and factory sealant in the upper & lower oil pan so pistons have never been out.
@@NaptownTuner ok cool the carb dip.. yeah I agree and I can’t get enough of how you have explained in previous videos the entire control ring designs from the pinhole, slots and now the waffle design on the B8-B8.5 platforms I’ve been always skeptical of any fuel additives or carb cleaners actually getting carbon out of these Direct injection engines.. but you are convincing me now, maybe this will clean gummy valves
