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Interesting, first time I have heard about water pump bolts being loose. I have had no problem with them over my 8 years of flying with a rotary. Perhaps its because they are flying backwards? (Joke, couldn't help it).
While this could certainly result in a serious condition - I guess its of some comfort to know you can loose all three short bolts and not have a catastrophic coolant failure.
Ed
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Slade" <sladerj@bellsouth.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 10:49 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: water pump bolts - warning
John; Do you feel that we should drill the cap screws, or is this an isolated incident? JohnD
The same (or similar) happened to Buly, so that's enough of a trend for me. I used blue locktight this time just for expediancy, but I'll be watching these bolts carefully and will wire tie them if they move again.
John
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