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| RE: Wear From Positive Seals |
| By kevin - 05/12/2001 8:51:37 AM; IP 209.240.221.105 |
| Unless you use hard chromed valve stems, and I mean good as in Eaton brand and not the junk Manleys you will wear the cheapo "flash" hard chrome off in less than 10k miles with some guide materials, when you use a teflon seal w/ring around it but not cast iron. The problem you are having sounds to me like your oil. I had an unexplainable consumption problem once and it turned out that the oil was being passed by the rings. If you switch to a lighter grade of oil you may find the cure for cheap. Try using 10w30 or just 30 weight and see what happens. Thick oil is hard for the oil control rings to scrape off the cylinder walls and that is their job. Consider the price of an oil change before you tear into it. The oil I use is Havoline and it works for me. I also use 1 qt of Mobil-1 in eveything I ever run and it makes a lot of difference in the wear patterns visable. I run straight Mobil-1 in racecars and expensive machinery ad it is worth the money to me from the protection it gives. |
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