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Posted for Art Jensen <flycassutts@yahoo.com>:
To all flying behind IO-550 engines. I recently took
my brothers Cirrus in for maintenance and the mechanic
told me that there are a lot of problems with the oil
dip-stick breaking on the IO-550 engines. He
cautioned me to look at the dip-stick in my engine.
Sure enough after 162 hours as you can see in the
attached picture, the dip-stick is cracked. The
Cirrus has just over 400 hours and the dip-stick is
not cracked.
I suggest that everyone monitor that dip-stick for
cracks. My old one has one spot weld that attaches it
to the cap. The new one has two spot welds.
Hope this information helps you.
Art Jensen
Legacy 927J
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