X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: <13brv3@bellsouth.net> Received: from imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.70] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0c2) with ESMTP id 731960 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:48:28 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.152.59.70; envelope-from=13brv3@bellsouth.net Received: from ibm67aec.bellsouth.net ([65.6.194.9]) by imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20050924194744.RJGX3196.imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm67aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:47:44 -0400 Received: from rd ([65.6.194.9]) by ibm67aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20050924194744.FVJX19803.ibm67aec.bellsouth.net@rd> for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:47:44 -0400 From: "Russell Duffy" <13brv3@bellsouth.net> To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: pressure in the crank-case Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:47:44 -0500 Message-ID: <000201c5c140$d4f79430$6101a8c0@rd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0003_01C5C116.EC218C30" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C5C116.EC218C30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable That's all I can think of. When you leave the oil cap off, and rev the engine, do you get a lot of oil fog out of the filler opening?=20 Mostly large droplets.=20 =20 Dumb question, but is your oil overfull? =20 =20 I am using up to 40" on take off but mostly cruise around at 32" or = less. This is more that I used to be able to RPM has never been over 6500. = Never lost oil pressure, oil never even gets very hot. My new cooling duct = works well enough that I am running it a little hotter than I used to be able = to do, but nothing too far out. =20 =20 That all sounds dandy, and I would expect a bad seal to blow out more of = a fog than droplets.=20 =20 After my oil out, when the side housings were warped, it looked like the engine had a smoke system when you ran it. It was also clearly rough running. The oil vent was fogging the area almost as much as the = exhaust was. =20 =20 =20 Yea, you are way down on non-flying aircraft, I recommend buying more = :-) =20 =20 Great minds think alike :-) =20 Rusty =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C5C116.EC218C30 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message
That's all I can think = of.  When=20 you leave the oil cap off, and rev the engine, do you get a lot of oil = fog out=20 of the filler opening? 
Mostly large droplets. 
 
Dumb=20 question, but is your oil overfull? 
 
I am using up to 40" on take off but mostly cruise around at 32" or = less.  This is more that I used to be able to  RPM has = never been=20 over 6500.  Never lost oil pressure, oil never even gets very = hot.  My=20 new cooling duct works well enough that I am running it a little hotter = than I=20 used to be able to do, but nothing too far out.  
 
That all=20 sounds dandy, and I would expect a bad seal to blow out more of a fog = than=20 droplets.
 
After my oil=20 out, when the side housings were warped, it looked like the engine had a = smoke=20 system when you ran it.  It was also clearly rough running.  = The oil=20 vent was fogging the area almost as much as the exhaust was. =20
 
 
Yea, you are way down on non-flying aircraft, I recommend buying = more =20 :-)  
 
Great minds=20 think alike :-)
 
Rusty
 
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