High Oil Temps

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High Oil Temps

Postby sonex293 » Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:39 pm

Just as a reminder.....

Don't over fill the Jabiru engines with oil. You will be greeted by high oil temperatures. I almost messed myself on my first flight after an oil change when my Oil Temps started to climb getting close to 240F....... On investigation after landing, I found two problems....First I had about 1/2 quart too much oil......not sure how that happened, and I also found a baffle that was moving out of place when the cowl was installed. Fixed both of those and my oil temp problems have vanished.

Just a FYI!

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Re: High Oil Temps

Postby N111YX » Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:43 pm

Yep, I have found that about 3.2 quarts of oil after a change brings it into the magic "lower 1/3rd" range on the dipstick...
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Re: High Oil Temps

Postby Wood » Sun Sep 01, 2024 9:18 am

Yup that’s what I thought. Does take much either. Just did my annual and during the maintenance test flight after that found my oil temps increased to 220. Never done that before and suspected that I filled the oily to much. Need to drain some oil.

Thanks for posting this thread as a reminder

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