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Ron, good to have you home. Now that you are in Texas with temps in the 80s, forget about heat and turn the air conditioning on~

Ernie Ekberg
83PT40
Weatherford, Texas

Hi all:

I arrived at home this morning from Calgary with the re-built
engine. Ran like a dream. Believe it or not, I didn't use any
measurable oil. Looks like I got a good job by the Canadians. It was
1898 miles on the trip. Won't know if there was any change in fuel
consumption until my next fill.

Still do not have dash heat. Need to do more troubleshooting.

R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Dallas, TX 92WB40

Ron could you tell us who did your rebuild. Was it a DD/Allison dealer




--
Rob, Sue & Merlin Robinson

94 WLWB

Glad to hear everything's working out Ron. Did you notice

any measurable increase in power as you put the miles on?



David Brady

'02 LXi, NC



ronmarabito2002 wrote:

Hi all:



I arrived at home this morning from Calgary with the re-built

engine. Ran like a dream. Believe it or not, I didn't use any

measurable oil. Looks like I got a good job by the Canadians. It was

1898 miles on the trip. Won't know if there was any change in fuel

consumption until my next fill.



Still do not have dash heat. Need to do more troubleshooting.



R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Dallas, TX 92WB40

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Yes, but that occurred after only a couple hundred miles.

R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Dallas, TX 92WB40


--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, David Brady wrote:
>
> Glad to hear everything's working out Ron. Did you notice
> any measurable increase in power as you put the miles on?
>
> David Brady
> '02 LXi, NC
>
> ronmarabito2002 wrote:
> >
> > Hi all:
> >
> > I arrived at home this morning from Calgary with the re-built
> > engine. Ran like a dream. Believe it or not, I didn't use any
> > measurable oil. Looks like I got a good job by the Canadians. It was
> > 1898 miles on the trip. Won't know if there was any change in fuel
> > consumption until my next fill.
> >
> > Still do not have dash heat. Need to do more troubleshooting.
> >
> > R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Dallas, TX 92WB40
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.
> > Checked by AVG.
> > Version: 7.5.405 / Virus Database: 270.8.0/1715 - Release Date:
10/9/2008 12:00 AM
> >
>

Yes. It was Waterous Power Corp. and they are a Detroit Dealer in
Calgary.

R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Dallas, TX 92WB40

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Robinson"
wrote:
>
> Ron could you tell us who did your rebuild. Was it a DD/Allison dealer
>
> 2008/10/26 ronmarabito2002
>
> > Hi all:
> >
> > I arrived at home this morning from Calgary with the re-built
> > engine. Ran like a dream. Believe it or not, I didn't use any
> > measurable oil. Looks like I got a good job by the Canadians. It was
> > 1898 miles on the trip. Won't know if there was any change in fuel
> > consumption until my next fill.
> >
> > Still do not have dash heat. Need to do more troubleshooting.
> >
> > R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Dallas, TX 92WB40
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Rob, Sue & Merlin Robinson
> 94 WLWB
>

Thank you Ron. Earlier I contacted my DD dealer here in Victoria British Columbia and they assured me any work they did had a North America warranty through the DD system. Glad to hear your engine rebuild is working well for you.





--
Rob, Sue & Merlin Robinson

94 WLWB

I want to give the whole group some additional information related to
the break-in. This recommendation came from co-moderator Mike Bulriss
and the Shop Foreman for Waterous.

The Shop Foreman said not to allow the engine to idle for a period
longer than 5 minutes and make the engine work. He emphasized, not to
take it easy. These engines like to work. When we are talking work,
that means pulling hard.

Mike said he broke in race engines by putting the car in its highest
gear and lowest speed it would handle. Then accelerate to more than
70 mph and decelerate back down. Do this repeatedly. The loaded
acceleration expands the piston and seats the rings faster.

Since this is an automatic, that's harder to do, because it wants to
downshift. Your acceleration must be just hard enough to get it to
work but not hard enough to downshift. The real blessing of the
return drive was the mountains and hills which gave me a great
opportunity to make it work on all the grades. I did this routine
from 50 mph up to 75 mph repeatedly for 1300 miles of the trip. It
apparently did a good job on the break-in. Like I said, no
measureable oil consumption, so I must have gotten the rings seated
quickly.

R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Dallas, TX 92WB40

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Robinson"
wrote:
>
> Ron could you tell us who did your rebuild. Was it a DD/Allison dealer
>
> 2008/10/26 ronmarabito2002
>
> > Hi all:
> >
> > I arrived at home this morning from Calgary with the re-built
> > engine. Ran like a dream. Believe it or not, I didn't use any
> > measurable oil. Looks like I got a good job by the Canadians. It was
> > 1898 miles on the trip. Won't know if there was any change in fuel
> > consumption until my next fill.
> >
> > Still do not have dash heat. Need to do more troubleshooting.
> >
> > R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Dallas, TX 92WB40
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Rob, Sue & Merlin Robinson
> 94 WLWB
>

Congratulations, Ron.

I'm sure you were glad to finish that difficult phase and pull into your own driveway after all that time, money and mileage.

I hope your 8v92 continues to work out nicely. They're hard to beat.

BradBarton00LXiDFW bbartonwx@...

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Thanks Ron, but that information was courtesy of Moroso or one of the
piston ring manufacturers. It has always worked for me to seat new
rings near instantly after a few passes. Nearly 2,000 miles on a new
engine with no discernible oil usage seems to say it probably worked
for you also.

I'm waiting to hear the MPG after the next fill-up.

Mike Bulriss
1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan"
San Antonio, TX


--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "ronmarabito2002"
wrote:
>
> I want to give the whole group some additional information related
to
> the break-in. This recommendation came from co-moderator Mike
Bulriss
> and the Shop Foreman for Waterous.
>
> The Shop Foreman said not to allow the engine to idle for a period
> longer than 5 minutes and make the engine work. He emphasized, not
to
> take it easy. These engines like to work. When we are talking work,
> that means pulling hard.
>
> Mike said he broke in race engines by putting the car in its highest
> gear and lowest speed it would handle. Then accelerate to more than
> 70 mph and decelerate back down. Do this repeatedly. The loaded
> acceleration expands the piston and seats the rings faster.
>
> Since this is an automatic, that's harder to do, because it wants to
> downshift. Your acceleration must be just hard enough to get it to
> work but not hard enough to downshift. The real blessing of the
> return drive was the mountains and hills which gave me a great
> opportunity to make it work on all the grades. I did this routine
> from 50 mph up to 75 mph repeatedly for 1300 miles of the trip. It
> apparently did a good job on the break-in. Like I said, no
> measureable oil consumption, so I must have gotten the rings seated
> quickly.
>
> R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Dallas, TX 92WB40
>
> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Robinson"
> wrote:
> >
> > Ron could you tell us who did your rebuild. Was it a DD/Allison
dealer
> >
> > 2008/10/26 ronmarabito2002
> >
> > > Hi all:
> > >
> > > I arrived at home this morning from Calgary with the re-built
> > > engine. Ran like a dream. Believe it or not, I didn't use any
> > > measurable oil. Looks like I got a good job by the Canadians. It
was
> > > 1898 miles on the trip. Won't know if there was any change in
fuel
> > > consumption until my next fill.
> > >
> > > Still do not have dash heat. Need to do more troubleshooting.
> > >
> > > R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Dallas, TX 92WB40
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Rob, Sue & Merlin Robinson
> > 94 WLWB
> >
>