REFLECTOR: pre-oiling the engine

[Scott Derrick]

No,  all you'll do is wipe the oil off the cam shaft and other metal 
parts and expose the bare unprotected metal to the air.

Never turn a sitting engine through.  Todays oils are designed to stay
on the parts in a thin film to provide protection as it sits.

Turning a sitting engine through periodically used to be thought a good
thing, it was found to be the worst thing.

Scott

Douglas Holub wrote:
> If my Lycoming IO-360 engine has been sitting for a couple of weeks,
> does anything useful get lubricated if I were to turn the prop a
> couple of times by hand before starting the engine?
>  
> Doug Holub
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