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Old 03-01-2026, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by charlie66 View Post
I have been reading a lot about how to break in a new hydraulic roller motor just out of curiosity and a lot of them say to do it in ten-minute intervals of 2800 rpms varying the speed by a few hundred rpms letting it cool down in between them for a 30-minute total run time. so, I've heard about this before.
This sounds like a flat tappet break in process. Where did you read this?

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