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Location:
Canberra
Registered:
December 2002
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Re: Cheap Oil
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Sat, 12 April 2003 04:18
 
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I have to agree with GIN51E on this matter on average i use to do a engine rebuild every week on aeroplanes and the oil did make a difference to how the engine wore.
One example that i will use is this the charter company that i use to work for had a number of aircraft one in particular was called a Piper senica, it has two small turbo horizontal injected piston engines about 360 cubes each. They were rebuilt about 200 hours apart one was put on mobil oil and the other on penzoil. The engine on mobile seemed to always be glazing cylinders etc. the one on penzoil never had a problem but the most surprising thing was that the engine on penzoil after 1800 hours of operation still had the hone marks in the cylinder.
The reason for the two different oils was that the boss didnt want to pay the extra couple of dollars for the penzoil but in the end he paid extra in down time and in parts and labour.
You do the math. Thats my 2c worth
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