Re: Re: break-in oil?

Posted by Buzzman72 on October 11, 2003 at 07:12:42 from (67.241.50.224):

In Reply to: Re: break-in oil? posted by Will Sick on October 09, 2003 at 21:01:28:

My dad and grand-dad ran a car/truck/tractor dealership and garage (Hudson/International/Farmall) from the 1940's until the early 1990's, and they always used nondetergent oil for break-in. As someone else has posted, detergent oil suspends the small metal particles and actually PREVENTS rings from wearing in (or "seating," as the old-tmers called it) as quickly as non-detergent oil. On a car, then, then first oil change was done at 500 miles. If you were going to run a detergent oil, this is when you switched to it. The next change was done at 1000 miles, to further purge particles from the engine. After that, resume your normal oil change interval. How that schedule relates to tractors, I'm not quite sure--I wasn't such a tractor fan growing up, so I didn't pay attention then--but I think the folks here can steer you right, within these parameters.

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