yup, that VW engine rebuild page is great!
*what I think they mean with that "prime the oil pump" thing
is trying to get all that "contaminated" oil out of there as much
as possible before pouring fresh oil in, not sure, gotta re-read.
|| STIMPY'S NEW RINGS BREAK-IN METHOD ||1st OF ALL: it worked! over 2k miles w/new rings and not a drop
of oil on the floor, not a drop of oil missing IN the bike and not
a black puff of smoke to speak of and all that torque is still there, yay!
anyway ...after putting the bike back together in the garage where I
kinda work (I'm their webmaster, page designer, PR guy, etc so they
lent me the space & tools to work there)
I) ... basically (after warming it) I ran home like a bat out of hell trying
to rev the engine/gears/speed up & down as much as possible, specially
down shifting a lot, I immediately drained that nasty jet black, scorched,
boiling hot oil outta there, this run was about 6 city + 4 highway miles,
engine ran fine but it got hot, REALLY hot cause of all that friction!
II) then filled it with 2qt of good fresh semi-synth oil and took a short
roadtrip on the weekend w/friends (70mi total w/3hr pause in middle),
did the reving/gear thing again and did not go over 65mph, then
drained the oil again; oil was in bad shape but not as bad as the
previous run, this time I changed oil filter too; there were a lot fewer
metal shavings this time but bike did get really hot that day as well
(think friction, but this is a GOOD thing).
III) Then rid the bike normally (85+mph at times) for about 300mi
and then dropped the oil again; this "4th oil " was in there for over
1k miles before I dropped it with no problems at all and lasted a good
deal of time nice and brown and eventually got black after about 500mi.
After all this it's back to normal w/regular oil changes twice a year,
5w40 for winter and 10w50 for summer
So that's the story, hope it helps