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Thanks Kelly,
About 2 weeks ago I spent an entire day taking off my water pump just so
that I could check for such an error. I inspected it very carefully,
the two are indeed separate. But thanks for the input. Keep em coming.
David Leonard
The Rotary Roster:
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/rotaryroster/index.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
On
Behalf Of keltro@att.net
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 7:08 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: idle speeds
> Thanks for the input rusty. You are very right about other eyes.
Every
> interested pair of eyes on the field has taken a look including 2
A&P
and a
> couple other rotary enthusiasts. There don't seem to be any
problems
staring me
> in the face.
>
> I don't have it on this computer, but I did post a pic of my pump.
Nothing
> special. I just lopped off the thermostat area from the first
coolant
sensor
> outward and had someone weld over the thermostat bypass then weld on
a
plate to
> which I bolt an AN-16 Fitting. This AN-16 fitting goes to the top
of
the RAD.
> An AN-20 fitting comes out of the bottom of the rad back up to the
pump
intake.
> > goes to the drain fitting on the bottom of the RAD.
>
Dave,
Take a look at the attached photos of a modified thermostat
housing. Make
sure that the input and output sides of the housing were not left
open
to each
other when the housing was lopped off. If so coolent would just
circulate in the
pump (path of least resistance) instead of the engine and radiator.
IMHO
Kelly Troyer
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