Graueradler
Pattern Altitude
A plane came in today with prop governor acting up. Found that he only had about 2 qts. of oil left. No sign of a leak and no oily belly.
Aha.....I wasn't there. Going on the attendant's phone report, the inside of the exhaust pipe was black.
...I have neighbors who run cars that way.....
A friend of mine had a nephew who wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed and was doing his first oil change on his Toyota pickup. He came in the house and told his uncle that he had put the entire case of oil in and it still wasn't full.
Turned out he had no idea what a dipstick was and was just trying to "fill it up" by looking in the oil filler cap.
My wife's BMW has no dipstick; you have to navigate a half-dozen menus on the iDrive computer to get to the oil level reading.
Really?
What does the inside of the exhaust pipe look like? Light grey? Dark brown? Or does the pilot just think that oil isn't a necessary additive?
I have neighbors who run cars that way.....
A friend of mine had a nephew who wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed and was doing his first oil change on his Toyota pickup. He came in the house and told his uncle that he had put the entire case of oil in and it still wasn't full.
Turned out he had no idea what a dipstick was and was just trying to "fill it up" by looking in the oil filler cap.
My Jaguar V12 holds 11-1/2 US quarts. I just put in a case at change and monitor the dipstick, whose mark reads "add 2-1/2 quarts."
For the plane, capacity is 8 quarts, but she blows out anything over 6, so I add 6 quarts plus 1 for the filter.
It's all in what you're oiling . . . .