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--></style></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Michael,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> Could you elaborate on what steps you take to … “</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>condition them very carefully on initial start”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> As some-one who is approaching first start-up after rebuild, anything I can do to help prolong engine life is of interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Andy</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Healeys <healeys-bounces@autox.team.net> on behalf of Michael Salter <michaelsalter@gmail.com><br><b>Date: </b>Sunday, 10 May 2020 at 18:33<br><b>To: </b>Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net><br><b>Cc: </b><healeys@autox.team.net><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Healeys] Oil Pressure<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>"How did the cam and lifters look (oblique ZDDP reference)?"</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Another very good question ... </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Again completely undamaged. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>BTW I've sold all my holdings in Valvoline </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"'>🤣🤣</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>M</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, May 10, 2020, 1:15 PM Bob Spidell, <<a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net">bspidell@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Michael,<br><br>How did the cam and lifters look (oblique ZDDP reference)?<br><br>Bob<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 5/10/2020 10:05 AM, Michael Salter wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"comic sans ms"'>Good question Roger. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"comic sans ms"'>Amazingly the crank journals had some oil residue burned onto them which easily polished off. This was a nitrided crank.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"comic sans ms"'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"comic sans ms"'>Sure blew me away!!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"comic sans ms"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"comic sans ms"'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>_______________________________________________<br>Support Team.Net <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>Suggested annual donation $12.75<br><br>Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys</a> <a href="http://autox.team.net/archive" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive</a><br><br><a href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">Healeys@autox.team.net</a><br><a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys</a><br><br>Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/michaelsalter@gmail.com" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/michaelsalter@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html Suggested annual donation $12.75 Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys http://autox.team.net/archive Healeys@autox.team.net http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/sneddon@xsmail.com <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>