I'd have to disagree with ya on this one Chris. Before I had my
engine bored .030" in 2010 I had driven it for about 8k. It
started and ran just fine but it was using between 1 & 2 quarts
of Rotella-T every 100 miles (leaking some but not that much).
In the day time you really couldn't see that it was burning the
oil but at night in the lights of the cars behind you it was
clear. I was however cleaning plugs every thousand miles. They
were not oil soaked, just a lot of tan build up which in the
begining I thought was due to the fuel I was using.
Since the rebuild I've put on a bunch of miles and every thing
is hunky doory, no oil usage, no fouled plugs.
On the "my neighbor rebuilt it in 2000", I hear that often but
in fact what they did was maybe honed a worn cylinder (making
it even bigger yet, not replacing the worn pistons and
expecting the rings to take up all that clearance. Most
Stovebolts that I've seen with more than 50k on them were worn
at least .010-.015" and simply re-ringing them would not cut
the mustard. They will start and run just fine but they usually
sound of piston slap and use a lot of oil after this sort of "rebuild".
Denny Graham
Somewhere north of Sandwich, IL
Last edited by Denny Graham; 12/04/2012 7:05 AM.
