Engine break in oil?

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When I first joined the Forum triple-r had a butthead Avatar and I liked him immediately, now... I can't even look at it...
 
If I have to stop this car and separate you to your in BIG trouble. Now back to the oil thing...
 
Biff said:
If I have to stop this car and separate you to your in BIG trouble. Now back to the oil thing...
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I get a kick out of watching these knuckleheads go at it. Lol I think they they are brothers. Haha
 
Geez, which is better. Sex on top - or Sex on bottom. The correct answer is: They both get the job done so it all comes down to a matter of choice.

My shop teacher swore by a 50/50 mix of STP and engine oil for assembly and what ever oil your dad runs in your family vehicle (ours happened to be Pennzoil)
 
Blind Squirrel said:
Geez, which is better. Sex on top - or Sex on bottom. The correct answer is: They both get the job done so it all comes down to a matter of choice.

My shop teacher swore by a 50/50 mix of STP and engine oil for assembly and what ever oil your dad runs in your family vehicle (ours happened to be Pennzoil)
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My shop teacher swore by Motor Honey. We still stock it today at O'Reilly. I've used it on a few engines in the past and it works well.
 
Rotella t 15w40 with Lucas zinc additive 24/7, including break in. 7 years and how many kms.later, still good. I buy a 5 gallon pail and dump additive in.
 
dartfreak75 said:
So you run the break in oil the first three then regular?
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Yes, initial fire up/cam break in, then for a 1,000 miles with varying low rpms around the area, a few mid to mid high rpm runs, near max rpm, change again for 3,000 miles with max rpm runs.
 
Biff said:
If I have to stop this car and separate you to your in BIG trouble. Now back to the oil thing...
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I'm sure my son's remember me swinging my right arm into the back seat wildly trying to keep the car between the lines screaming - STOP IT!!!
 
4spdragtop said:
Rotella t 15w40 with Lucas zinc additive 24/7, including break in. 7 years and how many kms.later, still good. I buy a 5 gallon pail and dump additive in.
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What is a kms? And isn't a pail something a kid brings to the beach to make sand castles?
 
Personally I broke my motor in mostly on the quarter mile LOL when everyone said 500 miles of easy Driving?
I said "oh crap!"
I'm sure four years later now I do have at least 500 miles on the street maybe LOL..
 
IMHO: A few hundred miles maximum then change it; less is OK. The cam break-in is pretty much done in the break-in period, but you want to maintain the ZDDP to at least the 1200-1300 PPM range, which was the old standard.

FWIW: Looking at the Lucas oil data sheets, the ZDDP is 2100 ppm. That is for sure much higher than was in the oils before the ZDDP reductions started occurring, so is more than plenty. Some testing shows that the higher levels than that (like over 2500 ppm) can cause new problems to crop up in wear surfaces. So I would not recommend Lucas AND a ZDDP additive; you going to ending up with ZDDP levels approaching or exceeding 3000 ppm. Might be A-OK for break-in.. the research that I have read does not address that per se.

One thing I do not like about the Lucas oil is that they say it uses a paraffin base oil. Quaker State and Pennzoil had quite a run of crappy oil in the 60's-70' that was notorious for causing high levels of sludge and deposits in engines, and that was due largely to the paraffin base oil. That might be different now, but it raises a question in my mind. It carries no API rating.... that might be bad, or that might be good!
 
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