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[ronmarabito2002]

I want to give the whole group some additional information related to
the break-in. This recommendation came from co-moderator Mike Bulriss
and the Shop Foreman for Waterous.

The Shop Foreman said not to allow the engine to idle for a period
longer than 5 minutes and make the engine work. He emphasized, not to
take it easy. These engines like to work. When we are talking work,
that means pulling hard.

Mike said he broke in race engines by putting the car in its highest
gear and lowest speed it would handle. Then accelerate to more than
70 mph and decelerate back down. Do this repeatedly. The loaded
acceleration expands the piston and seats the rings faster.

Since this is an automatic, that's harder to do, because it wants to
downshift. Your acceleration must be just hard enough to get it to
work but not hard enough to downshift. The real blessing of the
return drive was the mountains and hills which gave me a great
opportunity to make it work on all the grades. I did this routine
from 50 mph up to 75 mph repeatedly for 1300 miles of the trip. It
apparently did a good job on the break-in. Like I said, no
measureable oil consumption, so I must have gotten the rings seated
quickly.

R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Dallas, TX 92WB40

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Robinson"
wrote:
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> Ron could you tell us who did your rebuild. Was it a DD/Allison dealer
>
> 2008/10/26 ronmarabito2002
>
> > Hi all:
> >
> > I arrived at home this morning from Calgary with the re-built
> > engine. Ran like a dream. Believe it or not, I didn't use any
> > measurable oil. Looks like I got a good job by the Canadians. It was
> > 1898 miles on the trip. Won't know if there was any change in fuel
> > consumption until my next fill.
> >
> > Still do not have dash heat. Need to do more troubleshooting.
> >
> > R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Dallas, TX 92WB40
> >
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