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Start with less oil?  Seriously, I rarely have more than 10 qts on  
the dip stick on the IO-520 in my C206 because it does the same thing.

Tom O'Grady

On Apr 16, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Micah Froese wrote:

>
>
> I am getting oil on the belly of my Continental IO-500 powered  
> Legacy.  When I shut down after a flight,
> the breather tube makes a mess on the ground.  Often it will leave  
> a spot of oil on the ground roughly the
> size of half of a dollar bill.  Before I install an air-oil  
> separator, is there anything that can be done to decrease the
> amount of oil coming out of the breather tube.  The end of the tube  
> is located approximately 3 "above the
> exhaust.  It seems well out of the slipstream.
>
> Micah Froese
> Lancair Legacy
> 104 hours
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