Bob,
I agree about using good oil and I wouldn't flush an engine out with
kerosene. I just wonder why anybody would admit that they were in the Navy.
All sailors belong on ships and all ships belong at sea!
Durwood
>From: "Bob KNOTTS" <raknotts@qwest.net>
>Reply-To: "Bob KNOTTS" <raknotts@qwest.net>
>To: "oletrucks" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
>Subject: [oletrucks] flushing engines- TOM
>Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:51:06 -0700
>
>When you take the spark plugs out, you reduce the tension on the bearings
>to
>almost nothing, probably enough so even a navy AD could turn it by hand. I
>stick to my first suggestion: use a good name brand oil and change oil
>often.
>And a word of warning to anyone starting a newly rebuilt IH 345 V-8--run
>the
>oil pump twice to prelube the engine after turning the engine one complete
>revolution.. The heads are oiled on every other turn of the engine. If you
>only oil it once, you will starve one set of valves and that valve train.
>Tom,
>we missed each other at NAS Alameda. I was there in Jan-59 to June 1962 in
>the
>photo lab, and again in August 1969-March 1972 as a temporary warrant
>photographer in Ranger (CVA-61), Bob KNOTTS, PHCM, USN, RET. (Bob K in PHX
>AZ)
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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