Bellyman
Veteran Member
There are quite a few people dealing with replacing camshafts here so I'm thinking this may be a part of the process. Otherwise, I wasn't sure if this could have gone in the "fuel & lubes" forum. (?)
From the reading I've done here, there are a number of opinions on break-in oil, many quite similar, but one or two radically different from others.
What I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around is what is going on in an engine that we would need a different kind of oil after a cam and lifter replacement. When we use the break-in oil, are we tring to do a sort of controled wear? Is the break-in oil supposed to allow less wear than the synthetic that we're supposed to be running?
I guess it's not so much a procedure I'm looking for. I can find several in a search here. But I was looking a little deeper trying to understand why a break-in oil. What happens if you just stick the synthetic that you intend to run for the next 150k miles in it from the beginning?
Just trying to go beyond "he said" or "she said" and understand what's going on at a deeper level.
Anybody wanna have a shot at 'splainin' it? I can't be the first one to wonder.
Thanks,
Brian
From the reading I've done here, there are a number of opinions on break-in oil, many quite similar, but one or two radically different from others.
What I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around is what is going on in an engine that we would need a different kind of oil after a cam and lifter replacement. When we use the break-in oil, are we tring to do a sort of controled wear? Is the break-in oil supposed to allow less wear than the synthetic that we're supposed to be running?
I guess it's not so much a procedure I'm looking for. I can find several in a search here. But I was looking a little deeper trying to understand why a break-in oil. What happens if you just stick the synthetic that you intend to run for the next 150k miles in it from the beginning?
Just trying to go beyond "he said" or "she said" and understand what's going on at a deeper level.
Anybody wanna have a shot at 'splainin' it? I can't be the first one to wonder.
Thanks,
Brian