- 1. Engine Rebuild Business (score: 1)
- Author: mchaffee@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 13:18:19 -0600
- I haven't heard of the main bearing routine, butI was cautioned - from two different sources - not to let the MGB idle drop below 2000 rpm for the first 20-25 minutes - in order to break in cam and
- /html/mgs/1995-02/msg00031.html (7,423 bytes)
- 2. Re: Engine Rebuild Business (score: 1)
- Author: Marcus Tooze <tooze@vinny.cecer.army.mil>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 13:48:46 -0600
- The key, or so I have been told by many weathered old mechanics is to just take it easy. Top speed is not the issue, but RPM IS. On start up you run the engine at high idle to settle the new engine i
- /html/mgs/1995-02/msg00032.html (7,060 bytes)
- 3. Re: Engine Rebuild Business (score: 1)
- Author: "John M. Trindle" <jtrindle@tsquare.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 15:28:28 +0000
- Well, the poor thing doesn't start to go "below 2500". I figure lugging it is as bad or worse than revving it. What really bugs me is the variable in "how many miles/hours" constitute a break-in peri
- /html/mgs/1995-02/msg00033.html (8,272 bytes)
- 4. Engine Rebuild Business (score: 1)
- Author: Allen.Bachelder@vt.edu (Allen Bachelder)
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 15:42:39 -0500
- ...my Midget book says a 500-mile break-in with top speed of 45 mph is called for in the case of a new Midget motor as well. Of course, 45 mph in a Midget is closer to 3000 RPM.... Funny the recommen
- /html/mgs/1995-02/msg00034.html (9,149 bytes)
- 5. Re: Engine Rebuild Business (score: 1)
- Author: Marcus Tooze <tooze@vinny.cecer.army.mil>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 14:55:14 -0600
- So I have no idea YEAH!!! Exactly....you've all read some of the wordy crap they use in Haynes manuals and so on...the brits love to circumvent the world when trying to explain the most simple things
- /html/mgs/1995-02/msg00035.html (7,025 bytes)
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