At 08:44 PM 8/4/99 -0500, you wrote: >replaced the oil. Yes there is carbon suspended in it but I figure that >since I am using a filter that has probably 100 times the filtration >capability as the screen that is used on all small Continentals that have >not been fitted with a filter it can't be too big an issue.
It depends if the particals that get through are big enough to cause wear. I read what the size was somewhere, I think in the Skyranch engineering manual. I guess the thing to do is see if the filter mesh is smaller than that size. Do you still have the screen? Do you check for metal every 20-50 hours? I found a bunch of aluminum in a screen during a routine oil change once, from a piston pin plug, and I wouldn't have noticed it if I hadn't taken the screen out. I almost didn't, figuring that I'd looked 25 hours ago and there was probably nothing wrong. If it had progressed, it might have resulted in engine stoppage. I guess never changing the oil is OK if it's "self changing" like you described, but I'd sure want to keep checking for metal every 25 hours or so. I'm not convinced of the economy, but that's just me. ------------------------------------------------- Steve Dold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Say NO to useless over-quoting -------------------------------------------------
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