X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:03:10 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from n23b.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.206.142] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.11) with SMTP id 3409657 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:34:55 -0500 Received: from [68.142.194.244] by n23.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Jan 2009 00:34:55 -0000 Received: from [68.142.201.247] by t2.bullet.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Jan 2009 00:34:55 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp408.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Jan 2009 00:34:55 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 48053.83506.bm@omp408.mail.mud.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 45197 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2009 00:34:54 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Thread-Index:Content-Language; b=EftCXdy81ioLQfUtlzDea05GIPZQ0iLfD62vxlalc56YL5GbMgV/s8g7BK9cmsV/vp1VLUl3u989WL1ir6BBzWLCa5w8mxx7ABOs0gUtqlc5SquqN9swm8e+HKHM90MMaea5T9O7Pgzx/evo8B1NeMKF/8JAaTtbanMhf6nwSpI= ; Received: from unknown (HELO Laptop) (mcmess1919@72.177.77.73 with login) by smtp115.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 2009 00:34:54 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: kv8x1PwVM1nE8umoRTZ.F73x4lVWRQQBJ_RmbXGJkX_LcAo3RPtU1LkY.kzanipW319PIXJeFCaFpjLkJy7WsVbPacreDoFxZlZ9Sc8bxImMhLBVVKkO9q73JRosMITjcPIQwJFi5L77jhqsleGMAdwX X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: "Steve Colwell" X-Original-To: "'Lancair Mailing List'" References: In-Reply-To: Subject: water in the oil sump X-Original-Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 18:34:54 -0600 X-Original-Message-ID: <000001c96e04$43da14e0$cb8e3ea0$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0001_01C96DD1.F93FA4E0" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AcltmpgKROG9EBcJRBiXj/zmJj0z+AAZ6a+g Content-Language: en-us This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C96DD1.F93FA4E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If you don't have a Oil Cooler Door that would probably help more than anything to get the oil temp up quickly and hold it above 175 degrees to vaporize crankcase moisture. If you are returning the drain on the Air/Oil Separator to the crankcase that could be contributing to the problem. I like draining the Separator to a catch tank. That avoids returning the water with acids to the engine. An additional advantage is it allows you to monitor how much blow by oil and water is occurring between oil changes. Steve Colwell aka Claudette's husband ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C96DD1.F93FA4E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

If you don’t have a Oil Cooler Door that would = probably help more than anything to get the oil temp up quickly and hold it above = 175 degrees to vaporize crankcase moisture. If you are returning the = drain on the Air/Oil Separator to the crankcase that could be contributing to the = problem. I like draining the Separator to a catch tank. That avoids = returning the water with acids to the engine. An additional advantage is it allows you = to monitor how much blow by oil and water is occurring between oil = changes.

Steve Colwell aka Claudette’s = husband

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