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Old December 21st 07, 11:41 PM posted to rec.aviation.owning
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Default Preheating engines: Airplane engines versus auto engines

There's probably no more than about 1 cu ft of volume in a typical
crankcase. Even so that will contain on the order of half to one shot
glass full of water on shutdown. This will almost entirely condense
out as the crankcase is cooled to room temperature.

There is a slight amount of in-out-in of surrounding atmospheric
humidity with temperature, but the amount of water contained in that
air is trivial compared to that generated or left over by the products
of combustion.