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laboggan(at)mywdo.com
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 Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:51 pm Post subject: No Title |
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Had another great day of flying my bullet...ie Rocket.
I'm still having oil running down the belly. I ran the
engine at full power today for a full hour just to see the
fuel burn, plus another hour and a half before I landed
and saw the most oil I've had so far all over the bottom.
It threw it down to three quarts from a start of 7 and
1/2....
Seems someone wrote about having a new top overhaul and
theirs quit the oil throwing.
I had a professional mechanic do a compression check on my
engine after I landed and every cylinder is 80/80 or so
close it was not worth worrying about...worse one was 78.
Seems if I start out at 9 quarts it only throws out about
one every two hours.
The mechanic also told me to try using straight shell 50w.
I'm using exxon 20/50.
Anyone have any other good ideas.
This oil throwing is driving me up a wall.
I live at 6600 msl but climbed up to 17,600 msl today. It
is much higher than my tri pacer would ever go.
and I was up there within 30 minutes not even trying.
We sure have great airplanes.
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n395v
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:48 am Post subject: Re: No Title (puking oil) |
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Do you have the Christen inverted oil system?
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