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Roy Smith wrote:

> What's really annoying is that they always come back from an annual or > oil change filled to 8 qts.  I assume that's because the official 
> Piper service manual says to fill it to 8, and they're kind of stuck 
> following the book on that.

I don't know why that would be true; have you guys tried asking
them to only put in 7 qts?  (there needs to be an extra qt or
so added if the plane has an oil filter, it goes into the filter
as soon as the plane is run).

Snowbird


