Breaking it in

[SeaMasterZ@aol.com]

what are the rules nowadays for breaking in a new engine? just drive it normally, or run her up a bit to get the bits and pieces worn in, then change out the oil at 500 then again at 1000<br /><br />cant hurt, lolol, yeah, Im gettin anal about this one, motors I rebuilt MYSELF I would let run 1000 then 3000<br /><br />

 

[Skinnywater]

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You gonna make love to it or ya gonna drive it?<br />Jeez! I've heard less about a firstborn! <br /><br />He!!, you'll get 37 different answers anyway, so I'll keep it simple.<br /><br />Turn the key to the start position and drive it. Keep the RPM's below 3500 for 500 miles. Don't tow the boat up Pike's Peak for a 1000 miles.<br />Don't forget to smile occasionally and be careful, it a jungle out there.

 

[roscoe]

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I've drained the oil out of 7 new vehicles, and found metal shavings. (Honda, Mazda, GMC, Caterpillar, and Dodge.) The oil filter was full of metal from the Dodge. The only oil that came out clean, and didn't glitter like gold in the sunlight, was my BMW motorcycle. I feel the oil should be changed after a couple hours of running time, then at 500 miles.

 

[aspeck]

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I'd change oil around 500 miles (give or take some) and don't get too crazy for those first few miles. Then drive her like you will normally (if there is such a thing with you, Ray!). Used to be a big break-in deal, but with engines built at closer tolerances, it isn't what it used to be.

 

[FLATHEAD]

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Drive it like you stole it Ray,,

 

[mattttt25]

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according to my toyota manual, all i had to do was refrain from towing and using the cruise control for the first 1000 miles. that's it. i think breaking in the new engine is as old a concept as changing oil every 3000 miles.

 

[GodsBeast]

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OK Castaway, where were you last week? We have a report of a stolen S 10 red in color! <br /><br />You have the right to remain shut up.<br />If you give up the right to remain shut up, we'll shut you up and anything you say we will always use against you anyway.<br />You have the right to an AUTOrney!<br />IF you got no money for an AUTOrney, you should have, you've saved a lot by stealing that truck.<br />You don't expect us taxpaying citizens to fork over more money defending you after a steal like that?<br />If you decide to answer questions now, like you usually do, "GO Back and see you have a right to remain shut up!" But if you answer them now, without your AUTOrney present, and decide to shut up, after you've dug a deep hole for yourself, you can shut up at anytime you feel you've said too much! <br />You have the right to face your accusers "and this trumped up charge in Court."<br /><br />How's that for revised Maranda rights? <br /><br />Couldn't resist Ray, <br /><br />GodsBeast

 

[BrianFD]

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A couple of different schools of thought on this:<br /><br />Follow the mfg's recommendations & 'baby' it for the first 500 miles,<br /><br />or,<br /><br />do it like my Dad used to say: Ride it hard & put it away wet from day 1. If anything's gonna happen to the engine, you want it to do it when it's still under warranty.<br /><br />I followed Dad's advice (may he RIP) and haven't had any problems with any new vehicles in my 34 years of driving.<br /><br />Good Luck!!

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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I just replaced my BB Chevy a few months ago in my Motorhome and the manufacture, Recon, said to run it at slow speed, 30 to 35 for the first 50 miles or so and change oil and filter.<br /><br />Then another 100 miles at normal highway speed and change again.<br /><br />Then the normal 3000 mile thing after that.<br /><br />Might be a little overboard, but they cover it under warranty so I do it. <br />Them BB chevy's ain't cheap.

 

[KennyKenCan]

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Initial Break-In:<br /><br />Just imagine that you are Mario Andretti going into the final turn at Monte Carlo. <br /><br />Keep your foot on the gas and continually try to push your foot through the floorboards. <br /><br />Keep those RPM's up there, they should be right on those red lines on the gauge. <br /><br />Just remember, you got "Tiger Paws" on that thing, and you'll be able to take those corners at breakneck speed! <br /><br />Now you've made it through that last turn and you can see the checkered flag, just ahead, hang on, your almost done, ahhhhhhhhh, that should be broken-in now. <br /><br />One more thing, now that your all pumped-up after your break-in run, don't crash it backing into the garage, and drive it the way you normally would. <br /><br />Enjoy the new truck.

 

[gaugeguy]

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Bring the little lady out parking. The truck is then "broken in".

 

[NOSLEEP]

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If you'd like optimum fuel economy, and great<br />performance. Do like BRIANFD says , break her in<br />hard. dont blow it up,but make it work,get the<br />rings seated and stretch them rods. If its going<br />to break or have a manufacturing defect you want it<br />to happen now.And it will perform better in the<br />long run and get better fuel economy in the end.

 

[Topmason]

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My uncle used to buy a new truck every few years, not out of necessity, but just to look good and say it was new.<br />Every truck would show up on the construction site the day he bought it.<br />Oh we could be out back and unable to see at first, but we'd here the 4bbl cocked open and we'd run out to see Unc doing donuts in the biggest mud hole or dirt pile on the site.<br /><br />He always said, "I bought her to use, not to look at".<br />Always Chevrolet, always 1/2 ton 4X4, but he'd run the dog snot outta them trucks and they just kept running. Oil changes were frequent as were tires.<br />Bottom line here Ray, I say don't baby it.<br />Drive it today the same way you'll be driving it @ 100,000 miles.

 

[dhammann]

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The mfg recommendation is insurance in case everything was not kosher when assembled. Quality standards are higher now than in the past, so the importance of this is less but I have always believed in following recommended operating procedures. The factory bases thier recommendations on engineering data, not opinions. Why would a layperson dispute hours and $$$$ of professional research?

 

[SeaMasterZ@aol.com]

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LOL, thanks guys!<br /><br />**** , I used cruise control on the TEST DRIVE, and accelerated so that it shifted at 4500 - hmmmmmmmmmmmm - I wasnt flooring it, just trying to avoid getting run over by a semi, them diesel jockeys are crazy yanno - right SBN?<br /><br />Ive got to drive the thing fifty miles down an interstate to get her home<br /><br />however<br /><br />shes an overdrive truck, so Ill leave her in third crossing the dem mem bridge (id rather rev her than lug her)(hmmmmm, I call that thing the little guy then call him a her, hello freud!), then overdrive back to the house, and take her to jiffy lube<br /><br />then drive it like usual - let it rev, let it run, <br />then change the oil next weekend hmmmmmmmm I better get a steering wheel cover for when those oil change monkeys are messing wif my baby<br /><br />and this IS a firstborn, first new vehicle (well, cept for the 920 Virago)<br /><br />I know I mentioned it before in one of these posts, but its just so curious, always a ford guy, but first vehicle I bought was a chevy at 15, then a ford, then a chevy, then a ford then a chevy (somewhere in there I bought a pontiac for its motor for the 67 chevy impala covertible, 215 straight six that ran like brand new, originally got it for the 69 Malibu convertible but found a monte carlo with a 454, that one never did quite run right, the 455 Apollo would smoke it, course, it would smoke the big block mustang too, lol, but basically its been 25 years of bouncing back and forth, I think I had three mopars in that time, one a truck<br /><br />ah well, finish the coffee, go unload the impala<br />how I managed to fill the trunk and the back seat up is beyond me, I had to unload the plymouth into the chevy but sheesh! then again, never did take the 2 cycle jug out, fuel line out, lol, murphys closet (somebodys closet, old radio show where the closet was always overstuffed, JB and lakeman know what one)<br /><br />looks to be a long long day, also have to get a hold of Hartford insurance, and call down to Nucar, have em spray the undercoating / "sound deadener" on there<br /><br />and get that thing <br /><br /> READY TO ROLL !!!!<br /><br />