Running in camshaft versus rear crank oil seal

[Ian Anderson]

Ok realiy check please

When olg man Rover was still in existenve and churning our V8 engines and putting them in Landies, Rangies, Cars and anything else that would take them off their hands how were they done?

I bet the old Unionised end of production line bloke got given 5 litres of fuel per vehicle and told put fuel in tank and drive it from here to that field over there with the others. Put the red ones together etc!

So how tdoes that compute to 20 mins of 2000 revs?

It does not

I doubt they were ever done like that at the factory and I bet their QC checks on the assembly process were a lot worse than on your reuuild!

So build it install it and drive it!

I would add though pay for good oil with high ZDDP content


Ian

[kiwicar]

I covered that in the post above!
Best regards
Mike

[DaveEFI]

I'm pretty certain 20/50 was the factory spec oil for the UK up until '83 when it changed to 10/40.

I know it's the right oil , just wondering about running it that hard from cold being thicker . I know other p6 people have , but they didn't read this first . Wishing i hadn't now ! ignorance being bliss and all that

I doubt even BL would have fitted a pump drive which broke if you revved a cold engine with the standard oil.

[SimpleSimon]

I'm pretty certain 20/50 was the factory spec oil for the UK up until '83 when it changed to 10/40.

I know it's the right oil , just wondering about running it that hard from cold being thicker . I know other p6 people have , but they didn't read this first . Wishing i hadn't now ! ignorance being bliss and all that

2000-2500 RPM from cold isn't running the motor hard

[Stina]

Thanks Guys i'm happy again now