Lycoming 2600 hr TBO

Applies to new and factory rebuilt engines only. Not sure why it matters anyways. There's not a guarantee it will last that long, just a piece of paper.
 
Strong anecdata that TBOs are marketing numbers, not empirical numbers, that they can be conjured from a hat, conveniently during osh kosh, and weirdly apply only to in-house rebuilts.
 
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Doc Holliday said:
It matters if the aircraft is used in Part 135.
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“No. All Lycoming engines are still required to be overhauled within twelve calendar years of entering service or last overhaul, regardless of operating hours. The 2600 hour extension applies to operating hours only. Both limits apply and whichever is reached first determines when your overhaul is due.”

216 Hours a year. Part 135 probably work nicely.
 
Interesting. They're sacrificing some frequency of overhaul/rebuild work hoping to make it up and then some with share shifting from continental. Or they just didn't think about it and some snappy new marketing guy thought this would be a great one time bump in sales and he'll be gone to his next job before any negative ramifications pop up.
 
WDD said:
Interesting. They're sacrificing some frequency of overhaul/rebuild work hoping to make it up and then some with share shifting from continental. Or they just didn't think about it and some snappy new marketing guy thought this would be a great one time bump in sales and he'll be gone to his next job before any negative ramifications pop up.
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They can't keep up as it is. They'll probably charge more on the front and back end claiming longer tbo and still have a 2 year backlog.
 
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Let'sgoflying! said:
We might complain about it but it’s a move in the right direction, no?
(you’d rather read that they reduced all TBOs to 800 hours??)
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If the change had some sort of MTBF data behind it, sure, I'd prefer honesty to regulatory capture gamesmanship.
 
And then when its overhauled the TBO is 2000 hours. The headlines isn't so great after all.
 
Assume future remans though will be above 2000 TBO????
 
Hang 4 said:
Applies to new and factory rebuilt engines only. Not sure why it matters anyways. There's not a guarantee it will last that long, just a piece of paper.
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New and remanufactured engines are full of brand-new parts. Sometimes the case is the only used part. New stuff has a far better chance of lasting a long time than older parts, even though the old stuff is NDI'd. Lycoming never reuses cylinders and pistons or mags or cams and lifters. I don't think they reuse carbs, either.
 
I didn't think Lycoming did "remanufactured" any more.
 
Domenick said:
I didn't think Lycoming did "remanufactured" any more.
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They don't use the term remanufactured. They call it "rebuilt." From their website:

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New is brand-new everything. Rebuilt is this:

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Overhauled means the engine has zero time since overhaul (0 TSOH). Its parts all meet service limits, with some wear since new. Still, they don't reuse such stuff beyond the case and crank and rods and maybe gears and such.
 
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