<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">"How did the cam and lifters look (oblique ZDDP reference)?"</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Another very good question ... </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Again completely undamaged. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">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></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">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></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">BTW I've sold all my holdings in Valvoline 🤣🤣</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">M</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 10, 2020, 1:15 PM Bob Spidell, <<a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net">bspidell@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Michael,<br>
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How did the cam and lifters look (oblique ZDDP reference)?<br>
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Bob<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Good question Roger. <br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Amazingly the crank journals
had some oil residue burned onto them which easily polished
off. This was a nitrided crank.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">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. <br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Sure blew me away!!</div>
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