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Old 11-27-2013, 05:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Tim Brewer View Post
At 2200 miles, you're way past due to romp on that engine. I firmly believe that babieing an engine is just as bad as over revving and ragging it out. You have to stretch those legs every once and a while and blow out the cob webs.
It seems kind of archaic but this kind of describes the experience I once had with a BB Chevy engine. Only after I took a good long highway trip with 4.10 gears and then changed to a different brand of oil, did it seem like the rings seated and it settled down and oil consumption slowed way down.
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