Posted by ironhoarder on April 14, 2010 at 20:00:46 from (208.72.77.15):
My 1963 International 806 will be coming back to me soon from having the engine (and rear end) rebuilt. My question is, what should I do about breaking in the engine? I suspect this subject has been beaten to death, so I apologize.
Anyway, I"ve read that Diesels like to see a pretty heavy load (after warm up) immediately after new rings, in order to provide enough cylinder pressure to seat the rings.
Some ideas I have for this- hook up to a 16" haybine and run around the field for 20 minutes. Or maybe a bush hog. Maybe in higher gear than I would normally use.
How about lugging the engine? Starting off on a hill in a pretty high gear?
Hey, I just realized that my neighbor has a PTO driven dynomometer. Maybe I should just hook up to that and load it down good for a while. Being a 95hp tractor, that should heat up that old dyno pretty good!
And I realize that after some amount of time, the head bolts need re-torqueing and the valve lash re-adjusted.
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