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Rusty,
That
sounds like a plan. I will say that if I ever tear my engine down again, I
will definitely have the rotors ceramic coated. It doesn't take all that
long, especially considering that you have plenty of other things to do with
clean up, checking wear, etc.
I
think that even 10 degrees lower is pretty significant, and pressing out the old
rotor bearings and pressing in 2 new ones is a pretty easy and fast thing as
well.
BTW, I
didn't notice any of my tension bolts being bend, but then I didn't roll them
around looking at them all that closely either. If any were bent, it
wasn't enough to see by casual examination.
Steve
Brooks
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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