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Viking 130 Oil Consumption

Started this discussion. Last reply by charlie rosenzweig Dec 3, 2022. 32 Replies

My 130 has about 100hrs on it and it's been using about 1qt every 2 hours of flight time since new. It varies a bit with RPM. At 4300rpm it'll use 1qt/5hrs and at 4800rpm 1qt/2hrs.No leaks that I've…Continue

 

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Viking 130 Oil Consumption

My 130 has about 100hrs on it and it's been using about 1qt every 2 hours of flight time since new. It varies a bit with RPM. At 4300rpm it'll use 1qt/5hrs and at 4800rpm 1qt/2hrs.No leaks that I've been able to find. Based on the advise from Alissa, I added a catch can for the valve cover vent and found it pushes about 1/4 qt in that 2 hour span. I'm assuming the rest is being burned.Alissa also recommended running 10W-30 break-in oil which helped at first, but I suspect it was mostly the…See More
Apr 12, 2021
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