Break in oil question and manual tranny linkage pics

[brncbldr70]

Two questions from a newbie in Texas. What oil would you recommend for a freshly rebuilt 200? Does anyone have a picture of the shift linkage on a stock 3 speed manual transmission on a 1968 coupe? Since we reinstalled the tranny 1 st and reverse are really hard to shift into. HAven't driven yet, just pushing in and out of the garage.

Thanks!

 

[cr_bobcat]

Haven't used it myself, but classic inlines has some info on it. I'm sure there's other brands as well.

http://classicinlines.com/proddetail.as ... PO-200-BRK
http://classicinlines.com/bradpennoil.asp

I could have sworn that he had some more generic break-in tech articles, but for the life of me I'm not finding them right now...

 

[brncbldr70]

Haven't used it myself, but classic inlines has some info on it. I'm sure there's other brands as well.

http://classicinlines.com/proddetail.as ... PO-200-BRK
http://classicinlines.com/bradpennoil.asp

I could have sworn that he had some more generic break-in tech articles, but for the life of me I'm not finding them right now...

Thank you! Being new I haven't figured out how to search previous threads.

 

[nickstewartroc]

As far as the linkage goes, make sure you have the linkage the correct way, when I rebuilt mine I had the linkage for it backwards and it was really hard, but flipped it around and worked fine

-Nick

 

[JackFish]

Your initial break-in oil will be used for about 20-30 minutes and then dumped.
I am not a fan of costly boutique oils being used for break-in.
I'd use some cheap dino havoline or whatever.
You're going to slather the cam and lifters etc. with break-in lube, and that is going to get pumped through the system during the initial start-up anyways. IMHO. :|