[AT] Mustang

[bwhdon]

Ive rebuilt quite a few engines and always oiled every thing up real good
before starting, turned the engine over with out ignition to prime the oil
pump and all bearings etc and never experianced an engine burning oil as
long as 15 minutes on start up. Might have been a stuck ring or valve seal
causing the oily situation. Not knowing how you rebuilt the engine and how
it was assembled or primed it would be hard to say why it did it. But it
sounds like a oil scraper hadn't seated or was stuck a bit until it got
warmed up. If it doesn't get better after a some hours of running I'd wonder
if a ring didn't get broke when installed or a valve seal is leaking.

Don


----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Voris" <lvoris at axs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Mustang


> Spenser:
>     Did you put oil on the new rings when you installed
> them.  There is one company that I buy rings from says,
> to install the rings dry and they will seat on the first
> few times up and down in the holes. Granted the compression
> may not be as good for a few minutes, but it has worked for me.
>
> Larry Voris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Spencer Yost" <Spencer.Yost at piedmontsystems.com>
> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 10:21 PM
> Subject: [AT] Mustang
>
>
> > Just wanted to let you folks now that the Massey Harris Mustang I have
> been working on over the last several weeks has come to life!
> >
> > Everything went pretty smooth except I was quite surprised at the amount
> of smoke the first 10 to 15 minutes.   MUCH more than any other engine I
had
> ever done.  Man did that thing smoke like a 20 year old marine diesel for
5
> minutes.  Then it died down to something a little more reasonable.  After
> about 15 minutes, when I was getting it ready to shut down for the second
> head torque-ing, it had stopped burning oil and started running clean.
> >
> > I'd love to hear some "new engine startup" stories from you folks to see
> if anyone else had any problems with the engine smoking excessively at
first
> start-up.
> >
> > Other than that, it runs really well.   I just have some adjustments to
> make.
> >
> > Spencer
> >
> >
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