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Pick a nice warm dry week end and drop the pan. Pull the valve covers. I think you will find the culprit with some careful observation and close attention Good luck. Let us know your results. We are all going there some day !
Good observations Frank ! I probably put in the region of 50 hours a year on mine . Sample interval on a average Fighter is 10 hours , ten hours of flight time pulling gs and twisting into every contortion known
The soap results would say. Mild steel FE cast iron , And perhaps some copper CU and Babit ( mains) ( big end little end for miki ) precursors Clevite . If it was used in the rings for example. All General wear metals present in any engine of that era. Problem is with out established...
A spectrometric oil analysis is only as good as the base line data, anybody have the wear metals formulation for a multifuel ? I could be wrong but i don't remember seeing one in the tech data, Judging by the age I doubt the Army ever paid the manufacturer for one , If there isn't one your no...