Oil consumption

SVcummins

Well-known Member
Does anybody know or remember oil consumption correction program
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Not exactly that one in particular but it was a well known 'fix' for automobile dealers in that era to take in 'returns' for the issue where they would take the air cleaner off and pour in a can of bon-ami sink scouring soap with volcanic ash crystals into a wildly fast running engine in order to put the 'fix' into effect. Took thousands of miles off the far end of the engine life but it did work good enough to have the customer start paying payments again.

I've read also that the dealers would just throw in a bottle or two of molasses based Bar's leak as the cheapest insurance policy possible against weeping head gaskets too. But I can't find it anymore, so it's properly just another rumor. As is the bon-ami fix.

So when can we set up your appointment? lol

This one appears to be legit in that they genuinely need and intend to supply a more better oil control ring but they can't make enough, fast enough to keep up with new tractor line AND all the tractors already sold. The mechanic in me would dearly love to know if the fix was more return drain holes drilled into the piston land behind the oil ring or if in fact it was only a better design of oil ring and what that might have looked like.
 
Interesting! The 1963 4010-D Dad bought at auction December of 1968 already had the 4020 kit in the engine. The guy selling it at auction said, " Burns a little oil..." He was right, 4-5 quarts per tank of fuel plowing. Not quite as much on lighter loads. The sleeves/pistons would have been from this time period. We fixed the oil burning with M&W sleeves and pistons winter of '71/'72.

I put a Lotta hours on 4020's, never saw one burn much oil, some leaked a little.
 
Caterpillar used to have a powder that was like Bon Ami that was used to reseat the rings back in the 50's.
Richard
 
I have overhauled 100s of 3020 &4020 diesels never had one that did not break in in the first 100 hrs but i always told the owner get warm and then work had dont lug to much at first
 
Well, that sure is interesting.

I've heard of private repair shops using the dusting method on problem engines but never thought an OEM would recommend it.

Guess it shows how desperate they were. LOL

Thanks for sharing that!

(quoted from post at 20:49:27 11/25/17) John Deere had break in powder to
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In full agreement with that sage break in advice and every word of it too. I can only add minimal idle time to the things done in the early days of a fresh engine's life. Gas or Diesel but especially diesel do not like being idled for long periods of time with low hours still on the engine.
 
(quoted from post at 19:09:12 11/25/17) Caterpillar used to have a powder that was like Bon Ami that was used to reseat the rings back in the 50's.
Richard

At the Ford/Allis-AGCO/White dealer where I used to work, the boss had me do the Bon Ami "treatment" to several White 2-105's with the Perkins 354D in them. We'd run them on the Dyno afterwards to help reseat the rings. Probably the Dyno work helped more than the Bon Ami...
 

As previously stated , many engines did not get broken in because Aunt Mildred was granny driving the tractor. Operate at full power at max rated rooms and get the temperature gauge up and over towards the hot side for several hours .
 

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