[Mgs] another oil question? really?

[Eugene Balinski]

Same here
 Gene
80 B


On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:51:34 -0500
 "Chad" <mgb72 at airmail.net> wrote:
> I run Valvoline VR-1, for the ZDDP  Have run many miles
> on this oil, solid
> oil pressure.
> Chad '72 B
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mgs [mailto:mgs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf
> Of Max Heim
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 11:54 AM
> To: MG List
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] another oil question? really?
> 
> I don't buy that oval story. The whole idea is to keep
> the piston square in
> the bore, so the rings seal. You oval out the bore, the
> rings are circular
> -- the only way they can seal is to cock the piston,
> which can't happen
> because there are 3 rings, not one.
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
> 
> 
> on 7/7/14 9:20 AM, Clayton Kirkwood at crk at godblessthe.us
> wrote:
> 
> > Yes! Ok, I've had my 62 mga engine rebuilt 3 times by
> "experts". The 
> > current iteration seems solid - put a couple thousand
> miles on her. 
> > But she sips oil modestly. The guy who did the machine
> shop work for 
> > my 59 Land Rover told me that most machine shops and
> rebuilders machine
> the cylinder walls wrong.
> > They make the cylinders round instead of slightly oval
> toward the 
> > bottom of the stroke which considers the pull and push
> rotation of the 
> > driveshaft and connector arm. Seems reasonable to me.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > So the question. Should I increase the viscosity of the
> oil to allow 
> > less oil burn, and/or, go to synthetic which won't burn
> off?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Also by now, I'm figuring she has finished running in
> and plan to 
> > change oil/filter.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > "We live in the greatest nation in the history of the
> world," he 
> > pleaded. "I hope you'll join with me as we try to
> change it." Barrie 
> > Obama
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