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Old 05-24-2017, 07:51 PM
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At 25 hours I'm down a quart and a half . Instead of adding I pump out the remaining 5-1/2 quarts and refill with 7 Fresh . At 50 hours it gets drained , screen checked and new filter . Cheap way to have fresh oil constantly
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Old 05-24-2017, 07:57 PM
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You might try running at 6 qts. instead of 7. Many engines throw out a quart if over 6.
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You might try running at 6 qts. instead of 7. Many engines throw out a quart if over 6.
They're called Lycomings, Mel :-)

Years ago I spoke with a friend who worked sales for Lycoming. He told me to run the engine between 5 and 6 quarts. Anything above 6 will get thrown out. That was 10 years ago. I've run the engine between 5 and 6 ever since. I add a quart about every 13-15 hours to get back to 6 qt. The belly stays pretty clean.

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I have to add 7 qts to an empty sump to get to the 6 qt mark on the dipstick. But, anything over that does indeed end up on the belly, so I don't fill beyond that mark.

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Old 05-24-2017, 08:28 PM
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You might try running at 6 qts. instead of 7. Many engines throw out a quart if over 6.
I agree with that

Mines an angle valve , holds 8 . I never fill it passed seven .
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Default Absoulute value limits for contaminants?

Anyone have any absolute values that can be used as limits for the various contaminants in Lycoming engines?

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Old 05-25-2017, 07:51 PM
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Have you looked at Lycoming SB 480F?
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Old 05-25-2017, 10:43 PM
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Your engine is producing a pretty stable amount of metal. Each healthy engine will make a certain quantity of metal per hour due to wear, variable on factors, such as RPM, load, number or starts per hour, etc.

You should to expect to double the quantity of metal in your oil if you double the run time on the oil. It's not that the extended usage interval caused the metal wear, but that the oil was there twice as long to collect the metal the engine was producing. Your engine produces about 1 PPM of iron per hour. Therefore, a 25 hour interval will show ~25 PPM and a 50 hour interval will show 50 PPM.

I am not advocating extended oil changes, but not for metal reasons. Generally, it is the fact that lead and soot will, at some point, overload the oil's ability to hold it in suspension and it will deposit the excess in the engine as sludge once you reach this saturation point.

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You also have to consider how long does it take you to fly 25 or 50 hours. I've easily flow 25 hours in a couple of weeks at times and at other times in the past when I flew a gas guzzler and fuel was $7 to $8 per gallon, I flew 25 hours in a year.... Obviously the time span has to be considered.
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I have to add 7 qts to an empty sump to get to the 6 qt mark on the dipstick. But, anything over that does indeed end up on the belly, so I don't fill beyond that mark.

Chris
sounds like the 6 qt mark is actually the 7 qt mark now.
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