Member Contributer burnes45 Posted August 23, 2017 Member Contributer Share Posted August 23, 2017 Good write up on proper break in for new motors myths and facts. https://thumpertalk.com/articles/engine-break-in-truth-lies-and-what-you-really-need-to-know-r707/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Mohawk Posted August 23, 2017 Member Contributer Share Posted August 23, 2017 It's all Nuts, every motor build nowadays is wheeled/driven out of the final assembly point & thrown on a dyno & worked through the full rev range in all gears. Some have power measured either everyone or every so many to ensure they are coming off the line with relative power delivery. After that all you need to do is avoid over heating, revving or lugging the engine, just keep it spining freely at all times until it has a few heat cycles & a reasonable mileage on it. The free spinning allows the rings/bores/bearing to bed in. Change the oil & filter at 500-1000 miles, depends if it has cutting or stock oil in it. Job done ride and look after as per service manual. YMMV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer BusyLittleShop Posted August 31, 2017 Member Contributer Share Posted August 31, 2017 The key to the factory break procedure is high revs... you see at the factory they have already run the engine a high rpms to help seat the rings... they are not thrashing your engine... you're doing what your engine requires... The purpose of high rpms is initial seating of the piston rings to the cylinder walls. The run is conducted at full power because that is where greatest B.M.E.P. (Brake Mean Effective Pressure) occurs and a high B.M.E.P. is necessary for good piston ring break-in. The cylinder walls of a new engine are not mirror smooth as one might imagine. A special hone is used to put a diamond like pattern of "scratches" over the entire area of the cylinder wall. The cross hatch treatment of the cylinder walls plays an important role in proper break-in of piston rings to cylinder walls. I mentioned that B.M.E.P. was necessary to the "break-in" process. Here is how it works. If you cutaway a piston, ring and cylinder wall and inspect under magnification you see something to the effect of "saw teeth"... Given that a film of lubricating oil holds the piston ring away from the cylinder wall. Proper break-in of piston ring to cylinder wall requires that the ring rupture or break through this oil film and make contact with the cylinder wall. During such "metal to metal" contact, the little peaks on the ring face and cylinder wall become white hot and rub off. This condition will continue to occur until the ring face and cylinder wall have established a smooth compatible surface between each other. At this point, break-in is said to be relatively complete and very little metal-to-metal contact will occur hereafter. In fact, as the break-in process progresses, the degree of metal-to-metal contact will regress. How do you know if break is done??? take a compression test... if your engine shows factory compression then break in is complete... if your engine shows less than factory compression then more break in is require... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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