Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:10:19 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from mail.indian-creek.net ([209.176.40.9] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 2917825 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:02:29 -0500 Received: from pavilion (sl2.indian-creek.net [209.176.40.82] toucan@78055.com) by mail.indian-creek.net with SMTP (IOA-IPAD 4.0) id 03LCV00 for ; Mon, 05 Jan 2004 10:03:07 -0600 X-Original-Message-ID: <002b01c3d3a5$71125fc0$5228b0d1@pavilion> From: "Jim Cameron" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" Subject: Oil sump drains on IO-550-N X-Original-Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:03:19 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0028_01C3D373.255A98E0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C3D373.255A98E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The oil sump on my new IO-550-N (in my Legacy) has two sump drains. = One is on the left side, poised just above the ball fitting on the nose = gear's gas spring. That one looks nearly impossible to get at. The = other, however, is on the right side, and sits vertically in a = depression in the oil pan. It appears to be about as low in the pan as = the other, and will pose no particular problems for oil changes. Any reason why not to use the side drain, rather than the nearly = inaccessible other one? Jim Cameron Legacy, N121J reserved ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C3D373.255A98E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

The oil sump on = my new=20 IO-550-N (in my Legacy) has two sump drains. One is on the left = side,=20 poised just above the ball fitting on the nose gear's gas spring. = That one=20 looks nearly impossible to get at. The other, however, is on the = right=20 side, and sits vertically in a depression in the oil pan. It = appears to be=20 about as low in the pan as the other, and will pose no particular = problems for=20 oil changes.

Any reason why = not to use=20 the side drain, rather than the nearly inaccessible other = one?

Jim Cameron

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