breaking in the 500

well ive got about a total of three hrs running time on the new motor.ive had consistant oil pressure hot and cold. Decided to cut open filter and found nothing, do you guys think this thing has been running long enough to check the filter or not......   

I would go ahead a change the oil and then after 500 miles change the oil for the last time   

Rabbit wrote:I would go ahead a change the oil and then after 500 miles change the oil for the last time   

"for the last time" you run some very special oil or very short lived engines

DanH wrote:

Rabbit wrote:I would go ahead a change the oil and then after 500 miles change the oil for the last time   

"for the last time"  you run some very special oil or very short lived engines

I had a buddy that bought a new Chrysler mini-van.  Some years later we went on a road trip in it.  The lifters were clattering and I had him pull into a gas station so I could check the oil.  Van had 66,000 miles on it.  There was not a drop of oil on the dipstick.  I had to put 4 quarts in it to get it up to full.  Fired it up and lifter clatter gone.  

When I asked him when the last time he changed the oil he said, and I quote "Huh!"  Dumbass didn't know he had to change the oil.  It had never been changed since the factory built the van.  In fact, he had never taken it in for any service of any kind.  

By the way, he is a degreed college grad.   

fordguy69 wrote:

DanH wrote:

Rabbit wrote:I would go ahead a change the oil and then after 500 miles change the oil for the last time   

"for the last time"  you run some very special oil or very short lived engines

I had a buddy that bought a new Chrysler mini-van.  Some years later we went on a road trip in it.  The lifters were clattering and I had him pull into a gas station so I could check the oil.  Van had 66,000 miles on it.  There was not a drop of oil on the dipstick.  I had to put 4 quarts in it to get it up to full.  Fired it up and lifter clatter gone.  

When I asked him when the last time he changed the oil he said, and I quote "Huh!"  Dumbass didn't know he had to change the oil.  It had never been changed since the factory built the van.  In fact, he had never taken it in for any service of any kind.  

By the way, he is a degreed college grad.   

That sounds like the future of our country. Guys like us are a dieing breed. Jus sayn

Booksmart...without a lick of walkin' around sense.  

fordguy69 wrote:

DanH wrote:

Rabbit wrote:I would go ahead a change the oil and then after 500 miles change the oil for the last time   

"for the last time"  you run some very special oil or very short lived engines

I had a buddy that bought a new Chrysler mini-van.  Some years later we went on a road trip in it.  The lifters were clattering and I had him pull into a gas station so I could check the oil.  Van had 66,000 miles on it.  There was not a drop of oil on the dipstick.  I had to put 4 quarts in it to get it up to full.  Fired it up and lifter clatter gone.  

When I asked him when the last time he changed the oil he said, and I quote "Huh!"  Dumbass didn't know he had to change the oil.  It had never been changed since the factory built the van.  In fact, he had never taken it in for any service of any kind.  

By the way, he is a degreed college grad.   

maverick wrote:Booksmart...without a lick of walkin' around sense.  

Meet a few of them myself.