dan carley
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Has any one tried the oil separator that vans sells?
Does it work well
Thanks
Dan carley
Does it work well
Thanks
Dan carley
Has any one tried the oil separator that vans sells?
Does it work well
Thanks
Dan carley
Has any one tried the oil separator that vans sells?
Does it work well
Thanks
Dan carley
Has any one tried the oil separator that vans sells?
Does it work well
Thanks
Dan carley
The exact circumstance of that forced landing was that the seperator was being used with the reed valve feeding the separator output into the exhaust. at the point of entry, the tube was coking up and plugging up the outlet. Pressure built up and the front seal blew. Happened twice to my understanding.
If you do not plumb the separator outlet into the exhaust there is no concern (or at least no problems to date that have been reported here).
Folks like me that don't want the oil are doing one of a couple of things. 1, install an additional reed valve in the outlet tube exhausting to atmosphere as a back up, or 2, cutting a whistle slot in the outlet tubing.
No further incidences have been reported here to my knowledge.
All of that said, I do get a little coking, but not much. I clean it out each time I have the lower cowling off. I only have 100 hours on mine so far though.
Do yourself a favor and look up the thread.
Just installed Anti Splat Aero's air/oil separator on my rv10 and have flown several flights with a clean belly! Easy to install, great customer service, used a coupon I received in the mail for a great price and even threw in a free cap! My only concern was that my 540 had a 1" breather and the separator uses 3/4" connectors. I used my standard 1" line out of the engine and cut a 1" long, 3/4" diameter hose to go over the separator input and the 1" diiameter line fit directly over the 3/4" piece. Changed the 1" aluminum tube vans supplied to a 3/4" to complete the output line. Installed a hole in the aluminum tube just in case tube ices up.