20-11-2024, 10:00 AM
My own approach is similar. I use an in-line oil filter & admit I'm not quite so fastidious about oil changing.
First runs should be very short, watch the temperature. Then go around the block a few times - my thinking here is mainly to be within pushing distance should it conk out for some reason (nobody's perfect...)
Re-torque the head nuts when the engine's cold (and keep doing so till nothing moves).
Then as confidence increases make longer and longer runs, carrying a tool kit.
I have a favourite small road I use for this - there's no traffic, plenty of bends and modest hills, and I can follow it through countryside for a couple of hours and end up at a place which sells tea and bacon butties. You don't want to be fighting to keep up with traffic. You do want to be working the engine, very gently at first, but as you feel it start to loosen up after a few hundred miles start to work it a little harder. Short periods of exertion followed by gentle cruising & repeat.
High revs should be avoided until you have at least a thousand or more miles covered, but I'd far sooner rev the engine than labour it in a high gear, which is to be avoided at all costs (even after you are run in).
First runs should be very short, watch the temperature. Then go around the block a few times - my thinking here is mainly to be within pushing distance should it conk out for some reason (nobody's perfect...)
Re-torque the head nuts when the engine's cold (and keep doing so till nothing moves).
Then as confidence increases make longer and longer runs, carrying a tool kit.
I have a favourite small road I use for this - there's no traffic, plenty of bends and modest hills, and I can follow it through countryside for a couple of hours and end up at a place which sells tea and bacon butties. You don't want to be fighting to keep up with traffic. You do want to be working the engine, very gently at first, but as you feel it start to loosen up after a few hundred miles start to work it a little harder. Short periods of exertion followed by gentle cruising & repeat.
High revs should be avoided until you have at least a thousand or more miles covered, but I'd far sooner rev the engine than labour it in a high gear, which is to be avoided at all costs (even after you are run in).