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You can let it sit out of annual as long as you don't fly it. I would spray the cylinders with oil and have tanks full of avgas it doesn't turn bad like auto fuel. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Bullough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matthew Lockwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ercoupe Hangar Flying" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 7:13 PM Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] No Coupe flying this fall.... > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > > At 07:28 PM 9/24/02 -0500, Matthew Lockwood wrote: > >My Coupe is due its annual, we were gonna start it tomorrow (talk about > >timing!). It expires end of this month.... Should I do it now, and get > >(maybe less than) a week of flying in, or should I let it sit for three > >months (or more!) and not lose 3 months on the annual? Can I legally let it > >sit out of annual for a few months? Hope fully, I wont need to pickle > >it.....(?) > > I would let the annual expire, and see if you can get your mechanic to > schedule starting it just before you get home :-) > > Yes, it can sit out of annual, so long as it isn't flying. I think half the > airplanes in the USofA are probably in such a condition :-( > > If you aren't running it for 3 months, you really should follow the extended > storage instructions in the engine manufacturers' service bulletin. That, > essentially, amounts to getting it hot, dumping the oil, putting in an > anti-corrosion oil (in this day and age, I'd probably use Exxon Elite), > running the engine again to get the clean stuff distributed, and then > replacing at least one spark plug in each cylinder with a dessicant > plug to absorb moisture. 3 months not running won't help the engine > at all, if there is moisture in there. You may as well put it away right. > It isn't like it's that big a deal! > > Greg > > ================================================================== > TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > > > > ================================================================== TO UNSUBSCRIBE go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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