I am reminded of last year when I had to replace the valve cover gasket on the 1952 Farmall Super M. I've been using 15w40 diesel oil in that for the last few years. I'm sure in days gone by it was fed a lot of 30wt non-detergent so when I first started using detergent oil I mixed it in slowly, like 4qts non-detergent/1qt detergent to help clean the crud out. I also did twice yearly oil changes for a few years, now I do yearly or sometimes every other year depending on how much run time its had. Here's some pics of the rockers after a few (five maybe?) years of detergent oil:https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipNWm68EvswqCm8KuDFt-Tw2rxts3dM1-N7uQHj6 https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipNk9fhBrPNLHuVjzo_fKkRHwoc3MBXfH3YuBaG1 I was quite pleased with what I found. I was also quite pleased when the new valve cover gasket cured the oil leak onto the exhaust manifold. Although last spring I was discing some grass seed and the bugs were just awful. Maybe a little oil smoke would have helped...
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