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- From: norcott_bill@tandem.com (Bill Norcott)
- Subject: Re: Pressurize Oil Before Starting ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.194059.24000@tandem.com>
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- Reply-To: norcott_bill@tandem.com (Bill Norcott)
- Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
- References: <15200039@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM> <1992Aug25.131721.15149@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:40:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.131721.15149@dg-rtp.dg.com>, brownr@hydra.rtp.dg.com (Tall Randy Brown) writes:
- |> In article <15200039@spd.HP.COM> paulw@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Paul Welch) writes:
- |> >
- |> >I have seen (many moons ago) information on a company that provides
- |> >"before you start it" oil pumps. Basically, you add an aux. oil
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- <stuff deleted>
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- |> pocus, you have reduced your engine wear by 90-95% (first ten seconds
- |> after startup). So, add one to your engine and it should last 1-2 million
- |> miles (if the average engine lasts 100K miles today).
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- Mechanical wear is only one of many kinds of oil-related failures,
- and oil-related failures are only one cause of engine failure. What
- about the possibility of internal corrosion, cracked heads, mechanical
- stress, broken timing belts, etc which can all wreck an engine? The
- biggest cause of mechanical wear is on cold starts, that's the source
- of the claim that most of the wear is in the first 10 seconds. On a
- warm start this is not the case, there is hardly any wear. It's like
- saying heart disease is the #1 cause of death so if we cured heart
- disease we'd live a thousand years.
-
- Instead of paying $560 to pump the cold oil around, you can get an
- engine block heater for less than $20 that heats the engine and the
- oil before you start the car.
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