[Healeys] Lifter and Cam Wear ZDDP Issue

[Steven Kingsbury]

Many years ago, the Southern California AH Club had a seminar with Frank Monise, a builder of British cars for racing. At this seminar, Frank talked of the importance of using a good break in oil with ZDDP to get everything set, but then he shocked everyone with saying after he breaks an engine in, he goes full synthetic! And never worries about ZDDP again!

This article seems to back him up. I have been running my BN1 for over ten years with 10W30, no ZDDP and my car is running better than ever right now. Will it blow up tomorrow? Who knows? It's a Healey and anything is possible, but with oil changes and making sure it doesn't get too low in oil, I just keep driving and smiling.

Steven Kingsbury

BN1 #598


On Jun 26, 2016, at 10:09 AM, Stephen Hutchings <s.hutchings at rogers.com> wrote:


Oh boy, 
a can of worms has been re-opened. I'm already re-evaluating my choices.
Stephen, BJ8


From: Michael Salter <michaelsalter at gmail.com>
To: "healeys at autox.team.net" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2016 10:36 AM
Subject: [Healeys] Lifter and Cam Wear ZDDP Issue



For those of us who have been long term adherents to the theory that premature cam and lifter failure is attributable to the elimination of Zinc Dialkyl Dithio Phosphate (ZDDP) from modern oils the following link is to a very long but thought provoking blog related to the subject.

https://540ratblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/motor-oil-wear-test-ranking/


​M​ichael S
BN1 #174​










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