Rusty,
I recently had to remove the oil pan on my
20B, which required draining the oil. It has about 8 hrs of light duty
since the oil & filter were changed. When draining the oil I noticed it
had a very distinct gasoline smell to it. Initially, I thought it was due
to all the messing around with the fuel injectors I have been doing. Now
I’m not so sure. Seems that this might just be typical of the
rotary engine, then again maybe not. Hopefully, others who have been
flying for a while could comment on their observations.
Mark S.
From: Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Russell Duffy
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005
8:05 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: oil
analysis results
Finn made a statement a few weeks back that he had to
drain oil from his sump because of the fuel that had gotten past the side
seals. And he’s flying.
Bob Perkinson
Are you sure he said "fuel"
had gotten past, or was it oil? I'm sure some amount of fuel
does normally sneak by, but probably not much.
Cheers,
Rusty (got porting supplies, but
nothing to port)