> > Jeff said, > > " . . . not many pilots are going to be willing to pull the hinge pins to > look at the engine regularly before flight." > > I don't think anybody does that anymore. > > Mike > KSEE
Thank you Mike. You make a great straight man. That was exactly my point. If you make it easy enough, you will look under the cowl. On my Cub, I pop two overcenter latches and raise the side of the cowl and have one whole side of the engine exposed including intake tubes and exhaust system when I check the oil. I'll see immediately if I have an exhaust leak or cracked intake. I have also helped configure a glass (RV-7) cowl to the same type of arrangement, so it can certainly be done easily enough for a glass cowl. Opening the side of the cowl is no more difficult than opening the oil door on the cowl I built for my KR. If that line of thought had occurred to me 18 years ago, I would have configured my KR cowl that way. But at that point in time, I was in the "get it done and get it flying phase" of building. :o) -Jeff Scott Los Alamos, NM
