Oily sludge and its eventual destruction (a work in progress)

[casioqv]

Good luck with your cleaning process! After the cleaning is a good time for all new hoses and a new radiator, especially if you were planning to do it anyway. I'm not sure about hose availability.

Do you have a link to that oil adapter? I really like that idea as a way to add an oil temp gauge to a D24. If you saw my thread on the giant oil cooler I added, I'm now slightly concerned that I'll be over-cooling my oil as the thermostat I used doesn't fully block off flow to the external cooler.