[DeTomaso] Wear particles.

[cengles at cox.net]

Dear Dave,


               Considering your story of the engine and rebuild and 
considering the volume of schmutz that you describe on your inspections, 
my limited *amateur* opinion is that it is OK.


               How does the 377 Cleveland run?


                             Warmest regards, Chuck Engles


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:13 PM, dave londry wrote:

> Hey you engine analysts.
> I'm installing A Kevco Racing pan right now,
>   so I got to take an inventory of the contents of the pan and the 
> filter.
>
> I rebuilt this engine (377 Cleveland) last year and put 100 miles on 
> the break-in oil.
> Everything was new or newly ground but the rings.
>   I kept them because there was very little mileage on the previous 
> build,
>   (which I inherited along with some very special quality problems).
> When I changed the break-in oil,
>   I got about the volume of 2 BBs in magnetic muck on the drain-plug 
> magnet.
> It wasn't very magnetic, so I'll BS-guess and say it was less than 10% 
> steel/iron.
> I didn't recover anything when I tore the filter apart (K&N)
>   so it was probably just too well distributed for me to find.
>
> Then I put 1200 miles on a fill of Royal Purple synthetic.
> I got exactly the same result again with with the drain-plug and the 
> filter.
>  From the pan I got about a half-dozen chips
>   about 0.020 x 0.020 x way thinner than I can get ahold of. Maybe 
> 0.002 or 0.003.
>
> This all seemed pretty OK to me.
> I think the flakes were one-time sharp edges left from the 
> machine-work.
>
> So - am I delusional guys?
> Comments please, I can take it.
> dave
>
>
>
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