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RE: breakin

To: "'Jack W. Drews'" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>, <FOT@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: breakin
From: "Susan and Jack Brooks" <tr3a@att.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:11:27 -0800
> In the  process of solving this problem, I talked to a 
> motorcycle guy who 
> said that BMW motorcycles had this problem a couple of years 
> ago, and when 
> he went to the BMW school they taught them their recommended startup 
> procedure to prevent this problem.

> This procedure is to install the pistons in the cylinders 
> with virtually no 
> oil on the walls and no oil on the rings. Just put one dab of 
> oil on each 
> skirt. 

UJ,

That's how Sonny Collier, renown Norton engine builder had me start my newly
rebuilt engine.  He bored the jugs (cylinders) and supplied the pistons and
rings.  A Norton 850 is not easy to kick start with freshly bored,
unlubricated cylinders, but it worked just fine. 

Jack

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