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.

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.

you betcha.

Horace Brownbag wrote in
:


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.


Probably because all the slime on all the parts is COLD.

You don't REALLY think it all drains down into the bilge during the night,
do you, leaving just bare metal?

Tell ya what.....a little test. Take some plain old Rotella and dip your
screwdriver down into it. Lay the screwdriver out on something you don't
care about. Feel it, say, tomorrow and see if it cleaned itself off. Next
time you pump out the crankcase, dip something you love in crankcase used
oil. Lay it out and see if it cleans itself off.

That engine isn't bare metal when you crank it up. It's covered in slimy,
greasy, carbony gook from the bottom of the crank to that leaky valve cover
gasket.

Speaking of that, did the engine clean itself off when that gasket leaked
last? Did you ever GET it cleaned off with those exotic cleaners? Live
steam will clean the parts. Engines don't have live steam, inside, we
hope...(c;

Larry
It runs on gook!

larry, please don't make sophormoric comments on engine oil again. any engine
owner worth his salt can hear the difference at engine startup between a
prelubed engine and one that wasn't. don't try to out guess reality while you
are sitting in an armchair.

Horace Brownbag wrote in
:


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.


Probably because all the slime on all the parts is COLD.

You don't REALLY think it all drains down into the bilge during the night,
do you, leaving just bare metal?

Tell ya what.....a little test. Take some plain old Rotella and dip your
screwdriver down into it. Lay the screwdriver out on something you don't
care about. Feel it, say, tomorrow and see if it cleaned itself off. Next
time you pump out the crankcase, dip something you love in crankcase used
oil. Lay it out and see if it cleans itself off.

That engine isn't bare metal when you crank it up. It's covered in slimy,
greasy, carbony gook from the bottom of the crank to that leaky valve cover
gasket.

Speaking of that, did the engine clean itself off when that gasket leaked
last? Did you ever GET it cleaned off with those exotic cleaners? Live
steam will clean the parts. Engines don't have live steam, inside, we
hope...(c;

Larry
It runs on gook!