Jeff R
Well Known Member
I purchased a Lycoming experimental IO-320 and it came with the long term preservation. What I thought that meant was that the engine was full of preservative oil. I was wrong. I guess all it means is that the engine was packed in a vacuum sealed bag with desiccant. It doesn?t even have desiccant plugs, instead having the real thing.
So, living a few hundred feet from the Indian River, a couple thousand feet from the Banana River, and a couple of miles from the Atlantic, in warm, humid Florida where I was swatting mosquitoes today when I hung the engine, what should I do? I don?t expect to fly until the latter part of next year.
Should I fill up the engine with as much oil as I can get inside? Do I spray some WD-40, or how about LP-2 (?) in the plug holes and install desiccant plugs? (Do you use desiccant plugs if the engine is full of oil?) How do I even fill the engine up all the way with oil when it is mounted to the engine ? pour oil down the plug holes the extent possible??
Or do I just keep a normal amount of oil and rotate prop hub once every week or so?
Thanks.
So, living a few hundred feet from the Indian River, a couple thousand feet from the Banana River, and a couple of miles from the Atlantic, in warm, humid Florida where I was swatting mosquitoes today when I hung the engine, what should I do? I don?t expect to fly until the latter part of next year.
Should I fill up the engine with as much oil as I can get inside? Do I spray some WD-40, or how about LP-2 (?) in the plug holes and install desiccant plugs? (Do you use desiccant plugs if the engine is full of oil?) How do I even fill the engine up all the way with oil when it is mounted to the engine ? pour oil down the plug holes the extent possible??
Or do I just keep a normal amount of oil and rotate prop hub once every week or so?
Thanks.