Engine corrosion
Hello all
Looking for some opinions.
I took my airplane a PA28-181 to Florida for a major refurb in May of this year - a supposed eight week process.
Suffice to say not done to the agreed timescale.
I went to collect it in late September - looked great from 30ft away, up close not so much, the interior fit was appalling (I am going to put up a web page with the photos, some of it beggers belief) - so left there for the shop to resolve.
That is not the issue - I have been informed that the battery is flat "since your last visit" - this suggests that contrary to my expectstion that the engine has not been run gorthree months (the A&P does not respond to the question and I assume my supposition to therefore be correct - he refuses to tell me the Hobbs and Tach reading too - of course I can spend several thousand dollars going to look myself).
The question/query is this - is it likely that corrosion will have formed in the cylinders in this
time - the engine is a Lyc A4M - it has around 500 SMOH so not due for an overhaul just yet! There were no problems with the engine - indeed it completed a 20 hours series of IFR flights to get it to Florida.
So could problems have occurred - the airplane was not in a hangar?
If so anything that can be done to minimise the problems?
I ask as I may be fretting over nothing but as I have to fly this thing backover 2000 miles of open ocean the last thing I need is the engine having problems.
Thsnks