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Parking airplane for 4 weeks.

Lycoming, Continental, Hartzell, McCauley, or any broad spectrum drive system component used on multiple type.
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Re: Parking airplane for 4 weeks.

PsychedelicWatermelon wrote:I've been waiting on a new Concorde battery for 3 weeks (supply chain :roll: ) so I went to the hangar and swung the prop through about a dozen times. Helpful or not?


NOT helpful. You are scraping any protective oil you had on your cylinder walls off leaving them exposed to the elements. Also true for other components in your engine.

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