Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #5851
From: Dale Rogers <rogersda@cox.net>
Sender: Marvin Kaye <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Buying an Engine
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:15:10 -0500
To: <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>


I want to thank Perry, Rusty and Leon - and those others who,
in months past, have contributed information - for all the help
that helped me form a picture of what I needed/wanted in an
engine.

It would seem that serendipity has come into play.  My #2 son
is home from Coast Guard service, and he just happens to own a
pickup.  A few weeks back, I had turned up an internet listing
for an '86 13B at a *way* out-of-the-way salvage yard and,
because I had a service call that took me within about ten miles
of the place, I stopped in to take a peek.  It wasn't entirely an
encouraging sight.  It was sitting on a little wheeled cradle; no
flywheel; and *really* coated with dirt.  But it was FI - and
unlike the one in a Phoenix yard, last fall, the crank angle
sensor was intact.  It was stored with the holes taped up and
semi-inside.  They wanted $300, but I didn't have the money
with me, and there wasn't enough room in my corporate-issued
mini-van to put it anyway.  

Today, I called back - they still had the engine.  I asked if
they'd take $200 for it.  The guy asked, "today?"  I told him
I could be there in an hour.  Apparently, he was hungry.  I like
that in a seller - motivated.

I now have a reasonably complete 13B.  Now I have to get it
apart and figure out whether I have a rebuilable engine or
just a core for exchange.

I guess it's time to get Bruce's video.

Again, thank you very much.

With warm regard,
Dale R.
COZY MkIV #1254

 

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