A Good warmm up may help, Virg On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:49:06 -0800 "Joe Beyer" <fly...@spiretech.com> writes: > Message: 16 > > Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:26:58 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) > > From: "Dan Heath" <da...@alltel.net> > > Subject: KR> Bad day > > To: <kr...@mylist.net> > > Message-ID: <43B73DF2.000005.03972@DANHOMECOMPUTER> > > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > >Well, there won't be any flying for Dan and Jerry anytime soon. We > put the > > >tail in a valley between the taxi way and the runway to get the > tail low. > > >Jerry was running it at about 3000 rpm, with less than a1/4 tank > and it was > > >running great. He started to pull back and the engine came to a > very > abrupt > > >stop. It is frozen. There was no indication that anything was > wrong. No > > >smoke, no foul temp readings, no nothing. So now back to the shop > with the > > >engine. I don't like working on them. I can build them, but > really don't > > >trust myself with it and I don't know who will work on a VW for an > airplane, > > >that I would trust. > > > > I had a similar problem during our recent cold weather here in > Oregon. I was > about to taxi down the runway to check out a nose wheel shimmy > problem. When > I started my engine it was real cold. It didn't start right away so > I pulled > the prop backward about ten times because of flooding, and finally > got it > started. When I climbed into the cockpit and applied power to get > moving it > quit. I got out to check it and it was locked up solid. A few days > later > after I'd split the case I found non ferrous metal chips in the sump > (from > the bearings) and the cause was a galled ring bearing at the bell > housing > end of the engine. That's the farthest from the oil pump. My thrust > bearing > is at the #3 position like Revmaster. Pulling the prop backward > might have > pushed the oil away from the gallery being as thick as it was due to > the > cold. I have installed a brass fitting in the case for a full flow > oil > filter. Everything ealse looked ok in the engine with a small amount > of wear > and was a great lesson to me. It probably wouldn't have happened in > warmer > conditions when the oil was thinner, and it was a good thing that > this > didn't happen up in the air. I think cold weather brings out hidden > problems. Full flow filters are cheap and easy to install when the > case is > apart. I haven't priced out the teflon/stainless steel braded oil > lines yet > so it may not be so cheap. > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > >
Virgil N. Salisbury - AMSOIL www.lubedealer.com/salisbury Miami ,Fl
