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piezo-electricite · Post by **piezo-electricite** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:52 am

Yep...today is the first day with my baby stella 2T...what a sweet throwback-I'm lovin' it!

It has only 30 miles on it... advice on how to "brake it in" best?
thx!

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Post by **ericalm** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:54 pm

The most important part: Vary the RPMs (easy to do on a shifty) and don't run it at wide open throttle for too long.

People get religious about break in procedures and have many different opinions. I favor the "hard" break in: For the first 600 miles, flex the engine like a muscle, taking it up and down its full range. Don't baby it, but don't stress it out either.

viney266 · Post by **viney266** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:29 pm

ericalm wrote:The most important part: Vary the RPMs (easy to do on a shifty) and don't run it at wide open throttle for too long.

People get religious about break in procedures and have many different opinions. I favor the "hard" break in: For the first 600 miles, flex the engine like a muscle, taking it up and down its full range. Don't baby it, but don't stress it out either.

^^^^Thats about a perfect desription. I"ve built many 2 strokes and I agree completely. The piston rings are really broken in by 100 miles. the rest is all the other bits. Make sure you do the 300 mile oil change ASAP, the Stella really sheds alotta metal when new.

izark47 · Post by **izark47** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:49 pm

Yeah but between 3k and 5k she is like a comfortable GF I have not hit 5 k yet but she is purring like a kitten!!!

Post by **ericalm** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:36 pm

On my first 4T I noticed some good performance improvements up to 1500 miles or so. On 4T no. 2, it hasn't been so noticeable, but this one performed a bit better from the get go. (FWIW, the first one was from the original, small run of demo and test models. The second from the full production run.)