<VV> Oil changes again

[UltraMonzaWest@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/11/2005 5:57:34 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
Pitts10ch@aol.com writes:

> Sorry for the late bloom on this issue but:
> 
> A Lycoming 6 cylinder engine (aircraft) has a recommended oil change  
> interval of 25 hours.  This would equate to 1500 miles driven in  a Corvair. 
>  A 
> Corvair engine is practically the same as a Continental  with its cam on the 
> bottom 
> submerged in oil.  Continentals also have the  same interval.  This interval 
> 
> can be extended to 50 hours if one flies that  in a month in steady service. 
>  
> If constant power changes are  made than far more contaminants end up in the 
> 
> oil such as fuel  etc..  Anyway, oil changes are the cheapest insurance and 
> super  easy in a vair.  I just did mine the other day and it was nasty 
> looking  
> stuff.  I don't want to pull my engine any time soon.  Sidebar, I  worked 
> for a 
> guy once and we had Pratt and Whitney R985 radials on Beech  18's.  He never 
> 
> chaged the oil but they (his engines not all Pratts) leaked  so much that we 
> 
> just added a gallon every night to each engine and it was always  fairly 
> clean 
> looking.  Bizarre!
> 
> Chris 
> 
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