[Healeys] Oil Pressure

[Andy Sneddon]

Michael,

 

 Could you elaborate on what steps you take to … “condition them very carefully on initial start”.   

 

 As some-one who is approaching first start-up after rebuild, anything I can do to help prolong engine life is of interest.

 

Andy

 

 

From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Michael Salter <michaelsalter at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, 10 May 2020 at 18:33
To: Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
Cc: <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Oil Pressure

 

"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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