Easy guys. I'm retired. Actually, my goal with engine work has been to ensure that my friends don't hurt themselves flying behind a marginal or failing engine. I got into overhauling aircraft engines as a side line after buying an engine with 121 hrs SMOH, that blew up on a moonless night in the mountains at 200 hrs SMOH. That was in 1991 and that night I came very close to making a widow of my young wife and not getting to see my kids grow to adults. What I found inside that engine convinced me to never fly behind another engine without tearing it down and inspecting for myself and to never, ever trust what is written in the engine logs. Since that point in time, many of my friends have been flying behind engines I built for them. Not because I wanted to build engines, but because I don't ever want to see one of my friends in the situation I found myself in back in 1991. My friend Doug has always tag teamed the engines with me. I do the disassembly and initial inspection. I turn the parts and my credit card over to him to measure, spec out, repair, or replace as needed. He takes a lot of pride in doing high quality valve work. Once he gets all the individual parts overhauled, and back in one place, I do the engine build up an reassembly. Unfortunately, since I retired and moved to Arkansas, Doug and I now live 1000 miles apart, so aren't actively doing much work together at this point in time.
All the same, thank you for the kudos. -Jeff Scott ------------------- > Sent: Friday, October 25, 2019 at 12:31 PM > From: "Oscar Zuniga via KRnet" <krnet@list.krnet.org> > To: "krnet@list.krnet.org" <krnet@list.krnet.org> > Cc: "Oscar Zuniga" <taildr...@hotmail.com> > Subject: KR> engine work > > I just want to second what Larry and others have said about Jeff Scott. He > is experienced and knowledgeable on a lot of things, but especially so on > Continentals and Lycomings. He has helped me immeasurably on the care and > feeding of my Continental A75 (and the A65 that I previously had on my Piet). > He and Doug Reid may not have brought my A75 into this world, but they did a > complete makeover on a rescue core that I found in a widow's garage where it > looked to all the world like a complete piece of junk but which is now my > pride and joy, dry and tight and running like a top. Continental gold paint > with black cylinders and trim, "Powerful as the Nation". > > Oscar Zuniga > Medford, OR > Air Camper NX41CC _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
