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1. Engine break in (score: 1): Author: Art Pfenninger <ch155@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU>; Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 10:32:22 -0400 (EDT); Question of the day...After an engine rebuild why do we practice the ancient ritual of the dreaded BREAK IN PEROID? It used to be that when you bought a new car and drove it off the showroom floor yo; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00287.html (8,009 bytes)
2. Re: Engine break in (score: 1): Author: dmeadow@juno.com; Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 10:06:23 -0500; Most new cars do have a break-in period today (or "run-in" in Britspeak), but the limits are not as onerous and are more for bedding in the brakes and other parts rather than the engine. The two new; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00292.html (9,247 bytes)
3. Re: Engine break in (score: 1): Author: Gregory Kirk <gkirk@empirenet.com>; Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 08:35:20 -0700; Well, when I drove teh 93 Cherokee off the lot it required a break in period, but no special break in oils. They recommend keeping itunder I think it was 45 for 500 miles and under 55 or 65 I think f; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00295.html (8,692 bytes)
4. Re: Engine break in (score: 1): Author: mgbob@juno.com (ROBERT G. HOWARD); Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 18:02:43 EDT; Could it be that the new car manufacturers recognise that today's production tolerances are so small that break-in is no longer required? After all, they recommend 5-30 oil, pretty thin stuff at the; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00307.html (9,079 bytes)
5. Re: Engine break in (score: 1): Author: Art Pfenninger <ch155@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU>; Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 19:14:45 -0400 (EDT); I agree if for nothing else to be on the safe side. I'd like to hear from someone that works at an engine plant. Our engines are ancient but when they are rebuilt they have materials built to todays; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00312.html (10,110 bytes)
6. Re: Engine break in (score: 1): Author: Art Pfenninger <ch155@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU>; Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 19:46:58 -0400 (EDT); The only problem is that if you pick up an engine rebuilding book for say a chevy it will also tell you to break it in. I was at the library today trying to answer my own question and one book ended; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00317.html (10,107 bytes)
7. RE: Engine break in (score: 1): Author: DANIEL RAY <danray@bluegrass.net>; Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 19:13:00 -0500; I bought a '96 Chevy Tahoe a year and a half ago and the dealer said not = to worry about it, but the manual DOES give a break in period of 500 = miles and says "no towing!". It's probably not a big; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00320.html (8,715 bytes)
8. Re: Engine break in (score: 1): Author: mgbob@juno.com (ROBERT G. HOWARD); Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 15:08:43 EDT; Perhaps the answer to our questions about breaking-in (of the engine, not of houses and banks) could be answered by our determining what it is that happens during the "break-in" period. I remember s; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00349.html (12,201 bytes)
9. Re: Engine break in (score: 1): Author: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>; Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 13:02:52 +0000; On a trip the 'The Austin' (factory) in the '60s completed engines, but without sump or rocker cover, were put on a conveyor that automatically hooked up a drive and an oil feed as each engine reach; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00603.html (8,126 bytes)
10. Re: Engine break in (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:26:14 +0000; I just found something that might shed some light on today's less-stringent break-in requirements. One of the reasons I've always heard for the break-in procedure was that neither the piston rings o; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00747.html (8,382 bytes)
11. Re: Engine break in (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 07:24:00 +0000; It's the new Chrysler 2.7L aluminum V-6 for their LH cars. I inadvertantly inserted an extra zero. The "cylinder bores are finished to a tolerance of 0.3 microns (.000012 inch)". Scott P.S. I was ju; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01256.html (7,637 bytes)

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