On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:18:42 -0000, Larry W4CSC
wrote:

(JAXAshby) wrote in
:

As far as prelubing the engine before start up goes, do you
really care that much?

I do. Race mechanics do. Aircraft mechanics do. The US Navy does.

Listen to an engine upon startup with heavy oil in it (even at
summertime temps) and hear all the grinding and banging and clattering
going on inside the engine for the first ten or fifteen seconds, let
the engine warm up a couple of minutes, shut it off, restart and
listen again.

If you can't hear the difference, replace the battery in the hearing
aid.


You guys are too funny....(c;

The grinding, clattering and banging is because it's a D-I-E-S-E-L!!....The
blue smoke, too!

I hate to tell ya'; but if the oil is slow to come up on the first
startup; there is a difference in the sound.