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RE: More oil for breakin

To: "'Enrique Claure'" <spaninc@ceibo.entelnet.bo>, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: More oil for breakin
From: Dan Pockrus <dpockrus@efficient.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:20:51 -0500
> Hi listees, (I feel formal today) I was wondering if it would 
> be a good
> idea to put a bit of excess oil into the engine for the 
> breakin period. Say
> engine hold 3Liters, put in four. This way you should get 
> more oil pressure
> and have more oil to lube the engine? Wadaya say? Enrique

        I'd say you stand a pretty good chance of blowing a rear main seal,
which means pulling the engine again. I don't think I'd take the risk.

Dan Pockrus
'74B awaiting paint

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