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Thread: [IAC] oil samples

Message: Re: [IAC] oil samples

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From: Gil Tellier <giltel at earthlink.net>

Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 07:13:42 UTC


Message:

  I get 8 hours to a quart of straight 50 weight Aeroshell oil in a S-1S
with 270 hours since new on a stock
180 hp Lyc with Air Wolf filter, B&C vacuum pad adapter return, no oil
screen
and a thermostatic valve. Of the 8 hours, about 5 hours are Intermediate
akro
with lots of snaps. Upright to inverted results in only a slight and
momentary
drop in oil pressure that normally runs between 75 and 80 psig via EI
digital
gage. Oil temp runs nominally about 180F with cyl temp of about
350-375F. Oil
temp on the hottest day at Santa Paula, CA this summer reached 208F
after 45
minutes of continuous akro. Your oil consumption sounds excessive and is
certainly more than I observed with my S Decathlon over 8 years of
Sportsman
akro and 1100 hours with the same model engine as above, except for the
filter
and vac pad adapter. The adapter significantly reduced oil pressure drop
in
rolls. I use AOA for oil samples via Aircraft Spruce. Not scientific
data but
hope it helps.
Gil Tellier, IAC Ch 49

charles chadwick wrote:

> I sent out some old oil sample jars from Cleveland Technical Center in
> Ohio.  They were returned "address unknown". Does anyone know if they are
> still in business or the address of another company that does oil analysis?
>
> I have an S2A and it seems to push quite a bit of oil out the breather when
> I'm doing any kind of inverted work. I'd guess a half  pint to a pint in a
> half hour flight.  On occassion the breather will get so hot from the oil
> you will burn your arm on the pipe in the cockpit.  Any comments?


                


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