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    Wet stacking after startup

    Time (seconds) to oil pressure is immaterial. For example, it doesn't matter to the bearings if your deuce sits for 2 or 3 years without oil pressure. What matters to the engine is crankshaft revolutions until oil pressure. Because the oil pump is geared to the crankshaft, and is of the...
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    Wet stacking after startup

    That is exactly correct. The oil pump pumps the same amount of oil per crankshaft revolution at 100rpm as it does at 2600rpm... plus/minus a little for pump leakage. The bearing load increases drastically over that same rpm range. You do not want to be hammering poorly oiled bearings at 2000+...
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    Wet stacking after startup

    I think I can see why you have torn down lots of engines. That has to be the worst advice I have seen in a long while. Faster is when the bearings are under the greatest stress. It's the worst time for them to be without oil. Let it idle. -Chuck
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