[Healeys] Oil

Bob Spidell bspidell at comcast.net
Sun Aug 28 13:22:35 MDT 2016


"...Viper, Nissan and BMW MINI and the cars there are started normally..."

Maybe because they have them fancy OHCs, and not the barbaric flat 
tappet OHVs?


On 8/28/2016 12:10 PM, Michael Salter wrote:
> Jean, although the 2000 RPM for 20 minutes may be an industry standard 
> on rebuilds I have visited a number of new car assembly plants 
> including Viper, Nissan and BMW MINI and the cars there are started 
> normally (first time for the engine at least in the case of the MINI) 
> and casually driven to an inspection area  where they idle for a 
> couple of minutes while various systems are checked then to a storage 
> area turned off...
> I'm wondering if "industry standard" may be a different way of saying 
> "because that's what my mother did".:-)
> I have actually run a few engines with the side covers off to check 
> the tappet rotation. In most cases at least some of the tappets do not 
> rotate and no amount of revving or trying to encourage them with long 
> nose pliers seems to make any difference.
> M
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Jean Caron 
> <vintage_roadster_restoration at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:vintage_roadster_restoration at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Talked to a guy that has rebuilt and is still rebuilding a lot of
>     engine and he said that the 2000 rpm is an industry standard and
>     is so that the lifters do not only have to go up and down but spin
>     around in their bore. At lower RPM they may not turn enough and it
>     is also not recommended to go above 2000 RPM as the engine is not
>     under load.
>
>
>     //
>

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