"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
hlink.net...
You are probably more likely to have an engine failure from maitenance
than
from lack of maitenance.

Cute. But not really all that true, IMHO.

It depends on over how long a period of time you're talking about. If you
mean the instant after some maintenance is done, well sure...it's true (but
obviously so, and not interestingly so). But if you look at the same
question over 2000 hours of operation or one or two decades, I suspect that
lack of maintenance will show up as much more of an issue. The lack of oil
changes alone are likely to be a major problem, never mind the myriad of
fixable problems that would normally be detected during routine maintenance.

Pete