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Montrose, VIC
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Breaking-in
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Thu, 15 May 2003 13:26
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Yup, mineral oil for the first little while, it's much kinder in that it won't allow the rings to glaze over.
Make sure you don't idle it much for the first few hundred KM, and give it lots of moderate revs/load to help the rings sit home - no massive free revs. Drive it round in all gears, trying to maintain revs somewhere near peak torque, with a fair amount of throttle, but not thrashing it. Get the idea? Give it a coupla hundred KM, then drop the oil, fill it up again, and treat it a bit harder this time. Provided everything sounds/looks good, 500-1000km should have everything well and truly more than settled.
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