Hell no boy, I am putting in 20/50 at initial start-up until the snow flies. Remember! Oil viscosity is self-correcting in a VW.
If MY oil is too thick, the cooler is shunted until it is thin enough.
asiab3 wrote: Also, what was the out-of-the-box balance like on those new pistons?
The countrified machinists tell me that they were all fine. I did not double check. The entire rotating assembly is out 1.95 grams on the right and 1.50 grams on the left. That is all I can tell you.
asiab3 wrote:I have dreaded what I will do when these NOS Koblenschmidts bit the bullet in a few hundred thousand miles.
Robbie
You and I'll try Chinese next time. Today was three and a half hours with a hammer, a piece of wood, and a drift on a bench vise anvil to get the sled tins to fit. They are new from Air-Cooled.Net. Just horribly formed and dented. The whole reason I needed new ones was because Chloe's vibrating engine caused stress fractures at the screw holes throughout the lower tins that were stressed/pulled/tugged/pushed to fit. I demanded that this trash fall into place like NaranjaWesty and BobD's engine tins do. More tomorrow, after I pick up my head and install it.
Colin