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Originally Posted by 330indy
Dang
That doesn't build faith in those oil reports, that's for sure.
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Based on the circumstances of my own situation, using an oil analysis as a way to predict rod bearing health seems like it would have to be done in a very narrow set of circumstances?
The only way that I can envision it ever being useful for that purpose, is that the oil reports would need to be started at the beginning of life, and then done at every oil change.
I only have 220 miles on my new BE Bearings rod bearings, so it seems like I'll have an opportunity to start fresh, if I choose to do so.
But, since this first oil sample would have assembly lube and anti-seize in it, I would need to know if the assembly lube or anti-seize contained any copper or lead, and if so, how much?
If I wait for the second oil change, then I'm not really starting from square one, and then I'm back to guessing if the rod journals clearanced themselves in the first few hundred miles?
It just wasn't a very complicated procedure to get the oil pan off, so I will likely invade the crankcase again when the car reaches 130,000mi (another 65,000mi), even if every oil analysis were to show low levels of lead and copper.