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View Poll Results: You find a puddle of oil 3" X 5" under your aircraft after you land. What do you do?
Get back in the aircraft and fly 17.5 NM home? 8 4.30%
Make a post to VAF asking what to do? 3 1.61%
Phone your A&P Mechanic? 0 0%
Pull cowl and investigate? 170 91.40%
Find an A&P to investigate? 1 0.54%
Other? 4 2.15%
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Old 09-04-2015, 06:40 PM
jordanrv6a jordanrv6a is offline
 
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Default oil leak ! and was serious! under cowl!

okay.. I flew 30 miles to a local airport and noticed oil comeing from under neath my cowl and running down the belly.. so I can tell you from experience pull the cowl .. look for were the leak is comeing from Because it can be something serious .. in my case.. broken piston! and compression was pushing all my oil out my case vent.. so pull the cowl for sure.. I live by Murphy's law for sure!
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