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Re: It starts BUT...

To: mgs@autox.team.net, culgandm@ggdns.gg.dupont.com
Subject: Re: It starts BUT...
From: jurrasm@genesis.torrington.com (Mark Jurras)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 15:25:50 -0500
>  Mark Jurras writes (about "breaking in" a new engine):
> >  I also recall
> > something about keeping the revs below 3k for some number of hours of
> > driving. During this time low RPM high load conditions (i.e. hill
>                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > climbing in high gear) would help seat the main bearings. 
> 
> I was always under the impression that this was the worst type of
> driving for a new rebuild. Did my dad steer me wrong here?
> 
> Dave Culgan
> 

I could have been told to do the wrong thing. At the time I did not have access 
to the vast knowledge base available to me today.

- -Mark   = =o&o

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