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From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Bulent Aliev
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:25 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: water pump bolts - warning


On May 15, 2006, at 12:16 PM, David Staten wrote:

>
>> Have you thought about those two crap bolts that hold the oil  
>> pickup tube onto the engine?
>> Shouldn't they be high quality socket head cap screws, torqued and  
>> safety wired together?
>>    Lynn E. Hanover
>
> In my case.. I replaced those bolts with high grade metric hex head  
> bolts, drilled them for safety wire, torqued and wired them.  
> Especially since they were located where I could not check them.
> Dave
>

I did the same and thought about it all by myself :). Did not think  
about the WP ones?

Buly
http://tinyurl.com/dcy36


Same here.  Sounds like a "Best Practices" item.  

Mark S.