Bob Donahue asked:
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> <Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 08:49:02 -0500
> <From: John Lumley <jll4@cornell.edu>
> <To: aa101479@dasher.csd.sc.edu
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> <Breaking in an engine depends on bad lubrication - rings will not seat
> <(wear to match the cylinder walls) if they are too well lubricated.
>
> What are the ramification of the above scenario? What will
> happen if I'm driving around with unseated ring that are
> too well lubricated?
The engine will burn oil.
I was wondering how there could be no appreciable difference in the
lubricating properties of the same weights of synthetic and natural
oils when there's enough of a difference to prevent the rings from
seating.
Denise Thorpe, with the wind in a $9 haircut
thorpe@kegs.saic.com
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