[AT] Mustang/now 'first time start-ups'

[bwhdon]

Reminds me of my JD D with a straight pipe, scares some but is music to the
ear to others, but in a garage I bet it shook the walls etc.
I agree on the break in oil draining, you never can tell what might show up
in the drain. I usally use straight 30 wt for breaking and I have been using
cat 15-40 for the final for a couple years now. I know its a deisel mix but
the cat oil has some good clink to it I like.

Don


----- Original Message -----
From: "Grant Weir" <grantweird at hotmail.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 8:28 AM
Subject: RE: [AT] Mustang/now 'first time start-ups'


>
> The last time I fired a newly rebuilt engine was a couple of years ago
when
> we fired our Wallis for the first time.  It was January or February or
some
> other cold month because I remember it was far, far below freezing outside
> and too cold to roll the tractor out.  After liberal dosages of
"shimstock"
> we decided that we could not wait for spring and lit er' up for the first
> time right there in the garage (18' x 26') with the doors closed.  I had
it
> totally ready to go and knew it would start and boy did it start!  We only
> ran it for about a minute as the noise coming from that straight pipe was
> really something.  My buddy Doug claimed my Dad jumped at least a foot off
> the ground when it barked. Ha ha!  It scared the hell right out of all of
us
> - we all shook for 1/2 an hour after.  Good thing we had lots more beer.
>
> On a more technical note, the engine did not smoke in any way right from
the
> get-go.  I installed NOS pistons and sleeves including rings and it did
not
> even leave a spatter mark on the ceiling of the garage - which was only
> about 4" away at the time of the 'incident'. :-)  We started it with the
> crank the first time too - no sissy 'belting up to another tractor' stuff
> here!  :-)
>
> Oh yeah, and I always literally 'dunk' pistons into a can of clean oil
> before I put it into a bore.  There is no way (in my opinion...) you can
use
> too much lube during engine assembly.  You CAN use too good of a lube but
> never too much.  Use a cheapo grade engine oil for assembly and the rings
> will seat just fine.  Use a slippery synthetic or the like and the rings
> won't seat right.  Use the cheapo oil for the engine break-in then switch
to
> expensive slippery oils later.  One more thing I like to do is I always
drop
> the oil after the first time I start and run an engine.  I usually only
let
> the first oil stay in there for a few minutes, then I change it.  Most
> people will say to run it for several hours but I think there is way too
> much initial 'engine assembly' crap and dust in there to leave it run for
> that long.  Oil is still pretty cheap, at least in comparison to the cost
of
> rebuilding your newly rebuilt rebuild.
>
> Grant Weir
> Saskatoon, SK.
> Canada
>
>
>
> >From: "Spencer Yost" <Spencer.Yost at piedmontsystems.com>
> >Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> ><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> >Subject: [AT] Mustang
> >Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 23:21:53 -0400
> >
> >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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