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Vince Powell
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• Burlington, NC, USA |
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• Registered on 1/13/2004 |
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 Posted:5/3/2004 09:28 |
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The beast has finally got here. the psd rocks.
i picked up the beast friday and the wife took it out yard saleing saturday morning. she rolls into a greasy spoon for breakfast with one of her pregnant friends and got some absolute stare downs from about 5 locals who couldn't believe 2 women hopped out of the beast. she felt like a million bucks, i'm sure. 
we plan to keep the beast for it's life. i want to install the amsoil dual bypass with synthetics all around, tranny, transfer, axles, etc. i've heard it's best to wait for a break-in period for the engine. Question: is that accurate and is there such a break in period for the tranny, etc? |
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E. Long
 
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• Subscriber since 1/1/2001 |
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• Atlanta, GA, USA |
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• Registered on 1/23/2001 |
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Posted:5/5/2004 17:42 |
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Personally, I've run my vehicles for the first "service interval" before doing any modifications. On the PSD, that's 5,000 miles. As far as the tranny goes, I would say the same distance but this is not based on anything scientific.
110,000 on my X. You'll love yours. I'm looking forward to getting at least another 200,000 out of this thing. With diesel being $0.25 cheaper than 87 octane gas around here, I'm really lovin' it!
-Eric
'67 Galaxie 500 - 390 FE, .030" over, FE to AOD adapter, disc brake conversion. The Daily Driver.
'00 Excursion - 7.3L PSD, LANDYOT Gen-II Radius Rods, Factory Tech Valve Body, 200K+ miles and going |
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Vince Powell
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• Burlington, NC, USA |
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• Registered on 1/13/2004 |
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• 35 posts |
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Posted:5/7/2004 23:47 |
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the amsoil guy told me the break in period for the engine was for the cylinder walls to become scored to the point of allowing proper oil flow around the head. the synthetic coupled with the bypass system would prevent any scoring at all and cause the seal to be too tight. thus limiting proper oil flow and actually damaging the engine. if that is the case, and it seems to make sense to me,(heck i don't really know any better), it seems the transmission wouldn't "need" the break in period.
where am i wrong? |
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E. Long
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• Subscriber since 1/1/2001 |
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• Atlanta, GA, USA |
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• Registered on 1/23/2001 |
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Posted:5/9/2004 23:57 |
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| Quote: | the amsoil guy told me the break in period for the engine was for the cylinder walls to become scored to the point of allowing proper oil flow around the head. the synthetic coupled with the bypass system would prevent any scoring at all and cause the seal to be too tight. thus limiting proper oil flow and actually damaging the engine. if that is the case, and it seems to make sense to me,(heck i don't really know any better), it seems the transmission wouldn't "need" the break in period.
where am i wrong? |
Break-in period also allows all of the components to start wearing in and sometimes they can produce larger amounts of metal shavings with everything being so new. This happens with an engine, transmission, and rearend ring/pinions. Personally, I see this period as a time when you don't dump a lot of money into synthetic fluids and really just make sure everything operates normally. Assuming there's no major issues, metal shavings, etc., then it's appropriate to make the transition to synthetic fluids.
-Eric
'67 Galaxie 500 - 390 FE, .030" over, FE to AOD adapter, disc brake conversion. The Daily Driver.
'00 Excursion - 7.3L PSD, LANDYOT Gen-II Radius Rods, Factory Tech Valve Body, 200K+ miles and going |
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