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Greetings,
I spent the day yesterday
cleaning up the reusable parts of the engine. There was quite a bit of
rust still in the water passages on the front housing, and I spent quite a bit
of time scraping that out. Fortunately, I don't have to clean or scrap
rust from the ruined intermediate and rear housings. Overall, everything I
was planning to use still looks good.
When cleaning the tension
bolts, I noticed that 5 of them are slightly bent. I don't think it
will stop them from working, but wondered if anyone else had seen this
before.
I've also floundered a bit
on the ceramic coating for the rotors. While I'm sure this would help the
oil temps, I just don't think I'm going to do it now. Unfortunately, most
people that do the coating, also change something else in the process (as I
would be), so it's hard to say just how effective the coating is. At best,
I can't imagine it lowering the oil temp more than maybe 10 degrees, which is
nice, but not essential. Basically, I don't want to take the time to ship
the rotors off, and also don't want to take the chance of having them ruin the
bearings in my brand new rotors. I'm going to hope that my main
oil temp problem is like Al has said so many times- I needed a real oil
cooler. I'll have a nice one now, and should be OK.
By mid week, I should have
everything I need to finish the engine. I'll probably spend next weekend
porting the new housings to match the ruined ones, and I'll plan to put the
engine back together the following weekend. Still lots to do before it
gets back in the air, and as I KNEW would happen, I just got my hanger
eviction notice in the mail yesterday afternoon. I'm "supposed" to
have everything out before the end of the week. Fortunately, this is just
the county's way of saying they won't be responsible for damage.
The guys who are actually doing the work said all we need to do is give
them access to the walls, so I just need to move everything to the middle
of the hanger. They've already fixed the roof, so it
doesn't rain in there anymore, but stuff could still get wet when the walls
are removed. I'll be heading to Lowe's in a while, to buy a bunch of
Rubbermaid storage containers, and will pack everything in those, and pile it in
the middle of the hanger around the plane. With all that crap in the
way, I won't be able to work on the plane until they get done, which could
be weeks from now. Fortunately, I'll have the engine work to keep me
occupied.
Cheers,
Rusty (hoping Lowe's has
enough containers)
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