breaking(lapping) in a new engine

[dolson]

Hi rifleart, Hope it made sense. It's wet here now so not much to miss. Great job on getting up in the world.
Interesting by name.
Don

[rifleart]

Yup, I remember going for a drive by Crater Lake, is a beauiful place.

BMEP is a term that takes me back to the A & P School days as well.

I'll have to sort out with my dealer about oil when I have the run in time on the S3 when I get it. Have to wait 'till possibly late Jan, early Feb to for it to arrive. :-D

[teologie]

Great discussion & advice....

I maintain mineral oil until 6000 miles / 10,000 kms, thereafter Castrol Activo Synthetic. Some friends in the trade NEVER use synthetic in bikes that are only used on the road (as opposed to track days), prefering Shell Helix Plus 10W50 mineral oil.

Bit the bullet after alot of research on many different bikes. Ordered a '07 Caspian Blue Sprint today! This break-in info will come in handy. Let's hope it was the right choice!!
Jeff :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz:

[keo1050]

Amsoil full Syn , Repsol full Syn or Mobile 4T you can't go wrong. Used all 3 in many different bikes over the last 6 or 8 years and never a problem.

[Linz]

I see that no one has mentioned magnetic sump plugs in this discussion.

I swapped my stock unit out for a magnetic as soon as the bike cooled down after I rode it home new from the shop. The bike has now done 2600Km's and the bike shop did the first 1000Km service so I have no idea how much crud was on the magnet.

When I had my yellow '05 (which I killed), I swapped the oil (from the first service) out at 5000Km's and there was considerable grey scum attached to the magnet which leads me to believe that the filters don't get everything (or my magnet got it first).

I will be changing the oil out next week, in between scheduled services so it will be interesting to see what has collected from 1000Km's.

I would think that this metal, floating around inside without a magnetic sump plug would be doing some damage, or am I wrong?

Linz :-D

[chiefsr]

Can anyone tell me what the actual schedule is? The only part I know is under 3500rpm for the first 100 miles.

[denman13]

On 2007-04-02 15:11, chiefsr wrote:
Can anyone tell me what the actual schedule is? The only part I know is under 3500rpm for the first 100 miles.

The break-in sticker on the 07 says:
0-100=3500
-300=5000
-600=6000
-800=7000
-1000=8000
From there you're free to blow it up (kidding.) Odd thing, the bike sticker doesn't exactly match what's in the owner's manual.

I've only had mine a week but my dealer said I could add about 1000 rpm to the factory recomends. I'm at around 300 and I'm trying to stay generally under 6000 to 6500 but I pop it up for some short bursts to vary the revs and "stretch" things as Don puts it. I probably won't approach the red until I go synthetic. I'm trying to get a consensus on when people think that should be.

[scrape]

Originally Posted by denman13

The break-in sticker on the 07 says:
0-100=3500
-300=5000
-600=6000
-800=7000
-1000=8000
From there you're free to blow it up (kidding.) Odd thing, the bike sticker doesn't exactly match what's in the owner's manual.

Thanks!

I was looking for this schedule too. My new sprint only has 53 miles on it so far....then I took off the stickers. I expected to find the schedule in the manual, I should have checked first....triumphrat.net search is still better than google.

[BlueFalcon]

I've been looking for this too. Thank you.

Just got my Sprint back from the shop after getting a new engine installed. The 1050 was replaced under warranty after the engine blew in March due to some horrible work that was done to the Sprint. Triumph replaced the blown Sprint engine with a 1050 for a Speed Triple. The new engine sounds awesome, feels like it has a little more power and the guys up at GreatBay did a wonderful job putting her back together.

I would STRONGLY suggest that anyone in the northern MA / southern NH go to Great Bay for any service.