New engine!!

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 03:08:04 +0200, "Frode Berg"
wrote:

Hi!

We just got the bill for our new engine.....*GASP**
It should be ready and mounted in a few weeks.
It's a 1968' Piper Arrow 180 hp.
Great plane!

Is there anything we should be aware of the first few hours running a newly
installed factory overhauled engine? It's a Lycoming.

Any bad things to look for? Not run it over a speceific RPM or anything like
this?

On mine they told me to run the snot out of it.
Most of the break in was at roughly 80% and 1" over square.
No leaning the first hour or two and watch the CHTs. They told me not
to worry about pushing it unless the CHTs were high. There were only
slightly above normal. Not high at all. We used straight mineral oil
during break in.

We changed oil at 15 hours, but it still looked clean and wasn't even
down half a quart.

It never has used oil and present consumption is ... well, I don't
know. I've never had to add oil and at the 25 hour change it's barely
down enough to notice on the dip stick. Oil stays crystal clear until
about 20 hours.

However it sat a lot this past winter with a broken throttle cable.
When I fired it up I took it directly over (20 minute flight) to get
the annual done. Now I'll have to put a bunch of hours on it and try
to get an instrument competency check before P-ville.

Darn TFRs. They have one today that runs from Windsor over to Battle
creek. If I wanted to go south I'd need to go to Wisconsin first.
They're talking another next week end.

Election campaigns should be limited to 6 weeks prior to the election
with any mention prior to that being grounds for removal from the
race. Then every dig at the opponent should count as a 5% discount
from the votes they receive in the election. Course the last few
elections would have left both major candidates with negative votes
and one of the minor parties would have won.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


Thanks,

Frode Berg
LN-LMR