Pulling an engine off the plane.
in General Tech Discussion
10 years ago
Ok, never feel sorry for a guy with an airplane, unless it can't fly.
My engine mount is cracked on the 80 horse 912. It's an older engine, calendar wise, but only has 450 hours on the hobbs. I replaced all the rubber a couple of years ago at 250 hours and due to a series of unfortunate events, the plane sat in a maintenance hangar for 18 long unproductive months at 450 hours. I think I'll replace ALL the rubber.
I have also been chasing a leak from somewhere that as a few drips of oil on the starter. While the engine is off I want to tighten, torque check, pray over and seal anything that looks wet, loose or suspicious. What kind of clamping of fuel, oil and water lines really works without crushing rubber or metal beyond acceptable limits.
This is a 912F 80 horse from about 1990's. It runs great when I'm not breaking motor mounts, grounding straps, or CDI mounting brackets. All that in the last 300 hours. I'm not getting a warm fuzzy about reliability or safety here, is it just MY engine? I think the last 30 hours of actually smoothing out the prop angle and carb balance to perfection will go a long way, all the other damage was likely caused from vibration of worn out rubber isolators and a poorly balanced prop or so I am thinking. I know that's a lot of stuff, but I'm about to commit major surgery and I welcome real 912 experience rather than the touted experts in my AO.
My engine mount is cracked on the 80 horse 912. It's an older engine, calendar wise, but only has 450 hours on the hobbs. I replaced all the rubber a couple of years ago at 250 hours and due to a series of unfortunate events, the plane sat in a maintenance hangar for 18 long unproductive months at 450 hours. I think I'll replace ALL the rubber.
I have also been chasing a leak from somewhere that as a few drips of oil on the starter. While the engine is off I want to tighten, torque check, pray over and seal anything that looks wet, loose or suspicious. What kind of clamping of fuel, oil and water lines really works without crushing rubber or metal beyond acceptable limits.
This is a 912F 80 horse from about 1990's. It runs great when I'm not breaking motor mounts, grounding straps, or CDI mounting brackets. All that in the last 300 hours. I'm not getting a warm fuzzy about reliability or safety here, is it just MY engine? I think the last 30 hours of actually smoothing out the prop angle and carb balance to perfection will go a long way, all the other damage was likely caused from vibration of worn out rubber isolators and a poorly balanced prop or so I am thinking. I know that's a lot of stuff, but I'm about to commit major surgery and I welcome real 912 experience rather than the touted experts in my AO.
