I suspect you’ll have the light again as the sludge works its way through. That’s why I recommend cheap 5w-30. I also recommend Marvel Mystery Oil because it is a cleaner. I ran into another problem on mine after a few thousand miles. The oil pump bypass seized up. Instead of changing the pump, I just took it apart and cleaned it. Not hard to do and it can be done by just dropping the oil pan.
I can clean my oil pump with the oil pan off..? Dang, that’s a new one on me. You have a 96 camry..?
Maybe you mean there is a sub-portion of the pump that dips into the pan?
Or maybe u mean drop the pan and then reach up and disconnect the upper pan, or apron..?
What you said sounds super interesting, but I thought to get at the whole oil pump u gotta take off the alternator belt & timing belts, etc.
By some coincidence I did order a new oil pump the other day. Weird thing was there was no gaskets or spinner thing inside, just one big metal piece was all.
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I had added 2/3 of a bottle of Sea Foam into my oil and that’s why I think I was getting all these alarms —a lot of stuff was breaking off pretty fast.
I changed that oil out, no sea foam in it now. I think a more gradual approach is reasonable.
Ya think a bunch of 1,000 mile oil change increments is good with 5w-30..?