<VV> RE: Break-in Oil & Filter

John jdozsa@carr.org
Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:49:09 -0400


"John Kepler" <bigjohnohio@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

SNIP

> New School Reasoning:
> 
> The displaced metal is bad and you don't want it circulating around the
> engine raising hell, so you want the particles suspended in the oil as fast
> as possible and then completely removed from the engine for good by the
> filter....so a short "break-in" period with high detergent oil and a
> damn-good oil filter is what you want.  Your break-in procedure should be
> built around the concept of moving any displaced metal to the oil filter as
> rapidly as possible, and getting rid of it for good.  FWIW, this is the
> procedure that all auto companies use (the OEM filter in a new car is fairly
> special, with a finer filter media just to trap that displaced metal from a
> new engine!).

Is it possible to buy such an OEM break-in oil filter?  Or what filter
media do I ask for when talking to oil filter manufactures?  Media
micron size?  Etc.

John Dozsa