SE comp gone bad!
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From: wet coast BC
). short of breaking how do they go bad, flatten out? I think there is more to this.
Glad I found this thread..Installed SE compensator and now have 30,000 miles on compensator It was starting fine still but sounded as if it was running dry.I had changed the fluid in the primary 400 miles ago.Pull the inspection plate fluid level is fine.Pull the drain plug and the magnet on drain plug lots of metal..Pull cover, and the surface of the cam ramps are pretty scarred up..What ya think ?Have only run Formula + in it. Hope you can see in the pictures..
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Glad I found this thread..Installed SE compensator and now have 30,000 miles on compensator It was starting fine still but sounded as if it was running dry.I had changed the fluid in the primary 400 miles ago.Pull the inspection plate fluid level is fine.Pull the drain plug and the magnet on drain plug lots of metal..Pull cover, and the surface of the cam ramps are pretty scarred up..What ya think ?Have only run Formula + in it. Hope you can see in the pictures..
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From: Killeen, Tx
Same here
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I've had two OEM's go bad and replaced them with the SE Comp. Now it's makeing a ratteling noice now. Takeing it to my indy next week for that and new cams. I have only run Formula +. Indy says there is a friction washer in there that the stealer may have installed in the wrong place. I don't know, but I trust him more than the stealers. Will find out more next week.
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That's absolute bull ****. If not for the Amsoil or the Redline, the damn thing would have probably went sooner. You have to remember that these dudes in the service dept are told by their store operations manager to do whatever is necessary to sell customers the HD lubrication products. That includes this kind of bull **** that is simply a cover for a poorly designed lubrication scheme in the SE compensator. Tell him to mind his own damn uninformed business.
