[Healeys] Oil Pressure

[Michael Salter]

"How did the cam and lifters look (oblique ZDDP reference)?"
Another very good question  ...
Again completely undamaged.
After earlier suffering a serious lifter and cam failure in that engine I
had taken enormous care to condition them very carefully on initial start
up with the replacements and used VR1 non synthetic oil exclusively
thereafter.
This experience and others have me pretty well convinced that lifter/cam
problems are usually initiated on first start up of a new engine and if
they get through the first few minutes of running they will last well.
BTW I've sold all my holdings in Valvoline 🤣🤣

M


On Sun, May 10, 2020, 1:15 PM Bob Spidell, <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:

> Michael,
>
> How did the cam and lifters look (oblique ZDDP reference)?
>
> Bob
>
>
> On 5/10/2020 10:05 AM, Michael Salter wrote:
>
> Good question Roger.
> Amazingly the crank journals had some oil residue burned onto them which
> easily polished off. This was a nitrided crank.
> The shells themselves definitely were also in "do not reuse" condition
> with burned oil on the surfaces but when checked with "Plastigage" were
> still within spec.
> Sure blew me away!!
>
> M
>
>
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