justin_o_guy2
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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Unrelated to oil, but it's Time to have a look at the cam chain tensioner.
Yeah, oil gets away from them, not from burning it, but from the action of that Fat piston churning the air inside the crankcase. There is a hose running from the Right Front corner of the head. The more uphill you can make it slope as it goes to the rear will give oil in the column of air blowing through that tube, it's really pulsed,back and forth, Anyway, at higher RPM oil gets away, so check that out. I used Rotella, Real Dinosaur bones oil, not synthetic, I noticed oil leaving faster as the mileage on that oil increased. IOW, if I changed oil today and went for a ride and ran The Snot out of it, and after 200 miles of just railing on it, and it needed a half pint,I could do that same run when I had run 3,000 miles and was getting ready to change the oil and it would need more than that half pint of oil to get it back to the full mark. I didn't use how many miles I had on it to tell me to change oil. I watched the consumption rate.
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