Initial start on a new engine.
Would you consider doing it w/o water? I'm only talking long enough to heat cycle the engine (1-5 minutes, however long it takes to get the head hot enough to consider it "operating temp".
I will probably use a HF temp gun to monitor that if I do it, and again I'm only talking about water, not oil.
The reason for that is related to my conversation w/ the copper HG guy yesterday, and he wanted me to wait to add the water till just before a fire up, run the engine up to temp, and immediately drain the water below HG level for the head retorque, then permanently refill the engine after that. He stated that it was not uncommon for water to leak before that process. All I know is, I don't want a drip in the crank case fouling that oil if I can go through the initial start up w/o water.
I mean I did that on the Methanol fueled drag car, and nobody thinks twice about that because the Meth cools the engine, But that doesn't change the fact that there wasn't any water in the engine.
So, @84Ttop, @srtthis, @mikestang63 ,@90lxcoupe
Would you?
Would you consider doing it w/o water? I'm only talking long enough to heat cycle the engine (1-5 minutes, however long it takes to get the head hot enough to consider it "operating temp".
I will probably use a HF temp gun to monitor that if I do it, and again I'm only talking about water, not oil.
The reason for that is related to my conversation w/ the copper HG guy yesterday, and he wanted me to wait to add the water till just before a fire up, run the engine up to temp, and immediately drain the water below HG level for the head retorque, then permanently refill the engine after that. He stated that it was not uncommon for water to leak before that process. All I know is, I don't want a drip in the crank case fouling that oil if I can go through the initial start up w/o water.
I mean I did that on the Methanol fueled drag car, and nobody thinks twice about that because the Meth cools the engine, But that doesn't change the fact that there wasn't any water in the engine.
So, @84Ttop, @srtthis, @mikestang63 ,@90lxcoupe
Would you?