OK, let's say that you pull a jug for "inspection". Exactly what do you
expect to find by this? Where is this "rust" going to be? At BEST you will
see four camshaft lobes. That isn't going to tell you squat except for
those four lobes. If the engine has been run recently, all the splash hot
oil will have removed any rust particles you have a chance of seeing.

Now you've pulled the jug. New rings, a hone job on the cylinder, new
cylinder gasket kit, change oil to breakin oil, and for what? And who is
going to pay for it? Lemme TELL you who is going to pay for it, buy the
airplane or not. And if the airplane doesn't break in properly within a
couple of dozen hours, guess who gets to pay for the REdo. You do, redo and
all.

Airplanes are best sold on the "this is the price, no matter what your
mechanic finds" basis. You find some stuff that doesn't make you want to
buy, that's fine. No problem. See ya later.

Jim



"Mike Spera" wrote in message
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.. Others also balked about pulling
a jug for a prebuy. Normally, it is true that this is not done. There are
plenty of uninformed buyers with enough credit to buy a bird uninspected
and sight unseen. So, an unusual request like pulling a jug will no doubt
get you a firm "No F^@%!*G Way" of some kind of robust belly laugh.