Date:         Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:27:00 -0800
Reply-To:     Damon Campbell <damoncampbellvw@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Damon Campbell <damoncampbellvw@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: no oil pressure, new engine, need help!
In-Reply-To:  <3E77B568.4010703@adelphia.net>
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I'm wondering if this is an air-cooled specific
procedure?  Keep that fan moving, and all...

Any water cooled kids want to chime in and give an
alternate procedure (and more importantly, the "why"
for that procedure)?

Thanks,
-damon


--- Bradley Flubacher <flub@ADELPHIA.NET> wrote:
> This comes as a suprise to me.  My understanding is
> that with newly
> honed cylinder walls, the friction and heat
> generated the first time the
> engine is run is greater, and therefore should only
> be run at an idle
> for the first bit of it's break-in. I know you have
> a lot of experience,
> Stan, so this comes as that much more of a suprise
> to me.
>
> It seems there are as many different
> engine-break-in-rituals as there
> are ...  something plentiful. I wonder if there
> truely is any one method
> that is better than others.
>
> Brad
>
>
> Stan Wilder wrote:

> >Install 20/50 Wt engine oil, new oil filter.
> >Run the engine at 2000 RPMs for twenty minutes. It
> will take a
> >while for the lifters and everything to settle in
> so you'll have noise,
> >smoke and stink. Don't just guess about this, time
> it with a watch or
> >watch the clock on your dash.
> >You may think that the engine is going to self
> destruct during this 20
> >minutes but it will not.

=====
'84 Westy
'65 Kharma Ghia (Dharma)

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