Reply: More [ihc] 345 Oil drain holes clogged?

[Ted Borck <tborck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Jim or Ginger Aos wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Harais" <THarais@domain.elided>
> To: "IHdigest digest" <ihc@domain.elided>
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 6:09 PM
> Subject: RE: [ihc] Re: 345 Oil drain holes clogged?
>
>
> > Ted:
> >
> > The IH drainback holes are notorious for holding oil in the upper valve
> > train area with very slow drainback; plugged or fully opened.  If you find
> > any pertinent improvement to this, please share.
> >
> > Tom H., '76 Traveler

> I was able to ( reduce ) the symtoms by changing from M1 15-50 oil, to M1 
> 10-30.  That was in the 1310 with a 392.
Good tip.

If your problem was aggravated by cold weather, I may not need to go to 
such a low end vicosity oil.  Ambient temperature where the Scout will 
reside doesn't often go below 40 degrees F.

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Ted Borck	tborck@domain.elided