Predator or Champion?

[JRH]

Not really close an AK was made for a pig farmer to maintain.
An Aero engine is a precision instrument, but the tolerances are wide to prevent it from seizing if it over heats for example and it is designed to burn a kind of fuel and use a kind of oil that we just would not use in any other engine.
The fuel the lubricants the construction are all about not have it fail in the air....
But the oil and lubricants are really not suitable or at least intended for a car or a generator.

Ya misunderstood … no prob… I knew what you were saying , but the slop factor is what makes many things work great….J.

 

[DPC]

Ya misunderstood … no prob… I knew what you were saying , but the slop factor is what makes many things work great….J.

Its not sloppy it free and lose enough for safety.
Then you use something like a 50 or 60 viscosity oil to seal it up.

Lets say you tried to run an automotive oil there.
It would burn a lot of it faster than normal.
Probably leak....
Probably foul plugs and cause damage to bearings.

Put automotive fuel in it...
Probably have water issues and fuel system corrosion.
Serious and dangerous vapour lock issues!!!!
Octane probably not high enough to run at lean settings and high power.

 

[JRH]

Its not sloppy it free and lose enough for safety.
Then you use something like a 50 or 60 viscosity oil to seal it up.

Lets say you tried to run an automotive oil there.
It would burn a lot of it faster than normal.
Probably leak....
Probably foul plugs and cause damage to bearings.

Put automotive fuel in it...
Probably have water issues and fuel system corrosion.
Serious and dangerous vapour lock issues!!!!
Octane probably not high enough to run at lean settings and high power.

Ok…got it….yer right… sry….

 

[DPC]

Reading my morning papers.
And this is really just a fluke but an article on TEL CFCs and the man who invented them.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/world/thomas-midgley-jr-leaded-gas-freon-scn/index.html