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PackardV8 wrote:
apparently there was excessive oil consumption. Otherwise how does one explain the stb's and sc's regarding it? It's all just imaginary or something???
With all due respect PV8, the STB's and SC's regarding oil consumption are self-explanatory. They regard mods that, as was noted earlier, many new engines encounter in their early years of production. Also note, that some of them are based on only occasional complaints--what engine ever built has not had occasional complaints about something from customers? Packard was just doing a good job taking these to heart and recommending some changes--perhaps some of which were only necessary in exceptional cases.
Is it all just imaginary? I'd say, it partly is imaginary. And what wasn't imaginary was fixed pretty handily it seems.
Congrats on scoring those baffles Henry, and by all means use them!
Has anyone noticed that, even today, most auto manufacturers stand solidly (stolidly?) behind a "normal oil consumption" standard of a QUART every 500 miles! Why? I suspect it's because they want to explain away the 100s or maybe 1000s of engines they know will reach the field with manufacturing defects, or even design defects, that they don't want to cover under warrantee.
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