Peter if your engine is running good and has good compression just keep running it. Why take apart a good engine. Most wear on a engine comes when you try to start them in cold weather. I buy planes with high time and run the shoot out of them. I bought a tomahawk with 1900 hours on it cheap. I put 400 more on it, than I traded it for some land. The man I traded it to is still flying it!!! I run my planes hard 90 to 100 percent power all the time. I get good life out of them. My RPM is at red line all the time. RPM red line is only for the prop anyway. A home builder will take the same 85 hp engine put a small wood prop on it and run it at 3400 RPM!!! So don't baby your engine, thats when you get sticky valves, bad ring settings and so on. I have a friend who put 3800 on a piper warrior and is still flying it. gene
Peter Hogan wrote: > Gene,,Your were so inspirational I almost left after reading it. But > checked the calander and stopped. And your right, a 2000 club would > bring the stories out!! But I'd like some feed back on my situtation. My > annual is due next month and I am at 1892 on the tach. I am wondering > how it is going to come out? Do I need to start thinking about an > overhall before the trip?? which means doing it this winter. Guess I'll > wait for the annual, it just may help me decide??
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