Warrior Oil Level?

[Dave]

Hi Warrior/Cherokee pilots...

How full do you keep your engine? (oil level? )

Seems anything above 6 1/2 it just leaves...

5 1/2 - 6 it hardly consumes any oil at all...

Ours is 1976 150 hp Lyc, 600 hrs SMOH, 4 new cyls 60 hrs ago.

Compression all 73 - 76

Aircraft is new to us, we learning it... :)

Thoughts?

Dave

[Robert M. Gary]

It depends on your engine. In my IO-360 lycoming, I used to keep 8
quarts. Then, after about 500SMOH the engine started to blow out
anything above 7 quarts. It depends how much blow by you get on your
cylinders, I think. I teach in a Warrior, and I know the book says you
can run it on very little oil but I would want to keep at least 6
quarts in it.

[Jay Honeck]

> Seems anything above 6 1/2 it just leaves...

Yep, we always kept 6 quarts in our O-320-powered Warrior. Anything above
that just blew overboard.

We kept 8 quarts in O-360-powered Archers, for the same reasons.

And we now keep 9-10 quarts in our O-540-powered Pathfinder.

Of course, now we have an air/oil separator, so we *could* keep 12 quarts in
it...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"
"Dave" > wrote in message
...
> Hi Warrior/Cherokee pilots...
>
> How full do you keep your engine? (oil level? )
>
>
> 5 1/2 - 6 it hardly consumes any oil at all...
>
> Ours is 1976 150 hp Lyc, 600 hrs SMOH, 4 new cyls 60 hrs ago.
>
> Compression all 73 - 76
>
> Aircraft is new to us, we learning it... :)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Dave

[Dave Doe]

In article <Udl2f.419464$_o.299013@attbi_s71>,
says...
> > Seems anything above 6 1/2 it just leaves...
>
> Yep, we always kept 6 quarts in our O-320-powered Warrior. Anything above
> that just blew overboard.
>
> We kept 8 quarts in O-360-powered Archers, for the same reasons.
>
> And we now keep 9-10 quarts in our O-540-powered Pathfinder.
>
> Of course, now we have an air/oil separator, so we *could* keep 12 quarts in
> it...

You *will* keep 12 quarts in it - after you've experienced a serious oil
leak in flight.

--
Duncan

[Paul kgyy]

For my IO360 (8 qts suggested) I fill to 7, don't re-fill until it
drops below 6.

[Matt Whiting]

Dave wrote:

> Hi Warrior/Cherokee pilots...
>
> How full do you keep your engine? (oil level? )
>
> Seems anything above 6 1/2 it just leaves...
>
> 5 1/2 - 6 it hardly consumes any oil at all...
>
> Ours is 1976 150 hp Lyc, 600 hrs SMOH, 4 new cyls 60 hrs ago.
>
> Compression all 73 - 76
>
> Aircraft is new to us, we learning it... :)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Dave

We don't put much more than 6 quarts in our 67 Arrow.

Matt

[zatatime]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:59:40 +1300, Dave Doe > wrote:

>You *will* keep 12 quarts in it - after you've experienced a serious oil
>leak in flight.

From 12 down to 10 in a 235 IS a serious oil leak. Only takes about
40 minutes to blow out the first qt, and about another hour for the
second.

z

[Aluckyguess]

"Paul kgyy" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> For my IO360 (8 qts suggested) I fill to 7, don't re-fill until it
> drops below 6.
>
ditto