Jeff Cochran, CH-750 builder from Alabama with a running 2,850 cc engine, writes: Welcome back to the world wide web. You have been missed. Questions about the installation of your SS exhaust pipes. First, if ceramic coating of mild steel is bad, what about wraps on the SS system (except for the heat muff section)? Next, …
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We received this from Davis DA-2A builder Carl Luhning in Canada: A recent comment regarding the a Harmonic Balancer coming loose leads me to wonder if I have installed mine correctly. I used the called for Loctite for shafts and tightened it to the proper torque using the correct bolt for the purpose. I did not however use Loctite on …
To read an updated on this story please click on this link: Chinese Crankshafts for Corvairs, update 2/17/13. If the pictures on this story are small, try clicking on the F5 key at the top of your keyboard. Friends, Every now and then the subject of having a new crank made comes up. With …
Friends, I had a chance to speak with Woody Harris on the phone late last night. He spent some time telling me about the flying he had done lately in his Zenith, but he also spoke of other aviators he had met and flown with and that he had just bought a set of plans after …
Friends, Dan Weseman, the man behind the Wicked Cleanex, The BTA 5th bearing, and the Panther project, the second winner of the Cherry Grove Trophy, is working his way toward a new goal is the land of Corvair powered flight. He is developing a made in the USA, true billet crank for Corvair flight engines. Follow this post and …
Friends, The following photo series is of testing a new High Volume Oil Pump that we had made. The assembly and testing covered about 5 hours on Friday night. When I was in my 20s, I used to make a point of donating 10% of my week’s pay to Anheuser-Busch corporation on Friday night. In …
Friends, Submitted for your approval, three stories I wrote in 2009, 2010, and 2011. For me, the human element of aviation has always been the focal point of my lasting love for it. I love the machinery, the creativity and the history, but the story of the individual, the person, is what intrigues me. …
Friends, When we assemble an engine, one of the steps that I take is to test the head studs before we put the case together. It is a quality control step, and if one of the studs is slightly weak, I want to know it before assembly because it is a lot easier to fix …
Friends, Our friend and welder, Vern Stevenson, has had a lifelong love affair with all things mechanical. He has built a number of different aircraft, mostly light single-seaters. His hangar is just down the way from ours, and a tour of it is an education of how much a man with imagination, skill and some …
Note to readers coming from the Cub Crafters site: This information is not directly applicable to Lycomings. The 6% power increase came from a major change in the intake configuration, not from the EFI. Look at 360 Lycomings; Yes most of the ones with a carb are 180HP and most of the injection are 200HP, a …
