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From: Dale Rogers <rogersda@cox.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Engine damage thoughts
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:17:22 -0500
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Rusty,

   My gut feeling - from engines in general - is that I 
would spend the money for the gasket kit, and get a visual 
on the bearings.  However, I will defer to others with more 
active rotary experience than I have.

Dale R.
COZY MkIV #1254
 
> From: "Russell Duffy" <13brv3@bellsouth.net>
> Date: 2004/12/18 Sat PM 12:36:51 EST
> To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Engine damage thoughts
> 
> Greetings again,
>  
> I've been thinking more about the engine, and wondering what the chances are
> that there's any damage inside.  
>  
> I'm pretty sure I noticed the oil about the instant it started to lose any
> significant amount.  As soon as the oil started to leak, I pulled the engine
> back to idle, and descended ASAP.  I'm sure I was doing at least 2000 fpm
> from 6000 to 2000 ft, which only accounts for 2 minutes of time.  At 2000
> ft, is when I tried to throttle up, and the engine quit, so no time after
> that counts.  I'm absolutely sure the engine quit because I had the mixture
> knob set way lean for cruise, and not because it seized up.  
>  
> This means that at worst, the engine idled for 2 minutes with no oil
> pressure.  My guess would be that it was more like 30 seconds or less.  With
> this in mind, I'm thinking that it's worth doing some ground runs of the
> engine to see how healthy it seems.  If I can thoroughly run it on the
> ground without problems, then I can follow that with about 10 hours of
> circling the field.  By that point, I can't imagine having any further
> concerns.  If there was a problem, it would damage the engine further, but
> still continue to until I made it to an airport.  If I'm wrong about how
> much damage there might be, it will get expensive, but shouldn't be life
> threatening.  
>  
> Many of you have a lot more experience with these engines than I do.  Does
> this sound like a reasonable plan?
>  
> Thanks,
> Rusty (late for the airport as always)
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