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     1. 05:22 AM - Re: white smoke  (Gary Casey)
 
 
 
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Time: 05:22:32 AM PST US
From: Gary Casey <glcasey@adelphia.net>
Subject: Engines-List: Re: white smoke

--> Engines-List message posted by: Gary Casey <glcasey@adelphia.net>

There are so many unknowns with the "break-in" phenomena that it is  
difficult to say, but the most common opinion that makes sense to me  
says that low-power running is sort of suspended animation.  Nothing  
happens, so it is like it wasn't run at all.  Too much of it, though,  
and it will wear just enough to prevent a true break-in.  5 hours is  
kind of a long time, so I would wait and see.  After 5 hours of hard  
running if the oil consumption stays high (a quart every hour or two)  
then I'd start to think something wasn't put together right.  On one  
of my engines I found an intake valve guide that was loose in the  
head, for example.

Gary Casey
>
> With 5 hours of very low power operation since overhaul, could the  
> cylinders be
> glazed such that the rings will not seat until honed again?
>
> Mike
>