bigmo
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New-ish 425 hour Rotax 914 (Turbo). Trying to get in a groove with my maintenance, 100 hour inspections, and annuals.
I run almost all MOGAS (more than 90%) - only the occasional long XC will I need to touch 100LL. I switched from AeroShell to Valvoline 4 Stroke Motorcycle Full Synthetic 10W-40 (which was recommended by Lockwood). Lockwood has been pretty vocal that we should run full sythetic in the 914.
My goal, if the evidence is there, is to do my oil changes at 100 hours (with my 100 hour inspection). But I want to be evidence driven, not just pick a number out of the blue.
Plan A: For logic, do I do a sample at 50? Then???
-or- Plan B: My other line of thinking was in 1/3's - so run one at 33ish. I'll presume it's good. Then another at 66ish. That 66ish should really tell me if I'm done or can indeed go to 100.
I feel the 50 is too early to predict the next half of the oil life.
Open to thoughts/suggestions.
I run almost all MOGAS (more than 90%) - only the occasional long XC will I need to touch 100LL. I switched from AeroShell to Valvoline 4 Stroke Motorcycle Full Synthetic 10W-40 (which was recommended by Lockwood). Lockwood has been pretty vocal that we should run full sythetic in the 914.
My goal, if the evidence is there, is to do my oil changes at 100 hours (with my 100 hour inspection). But I want to be evidence driven, not just pick a number out of the blue.
Plan A: For logic, do I do a sample at 50? Then???
-or- Plan B: My other line of thinking was in 1/3's - so run one at 33ish. I'll presume it's good. Then another at 66ish. That 66ish should really tell me if I'm done or can indeed go to 100.
I feel the 50 is too early to predict the next half of the oil life.
Open to thoughts/suggestions.