---------------------------------------------------------- Engines-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Thu 10/27/05: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 05:51 AM - Re: Splitting case of an IO-360-A3B6D (Kelly McMullen) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 05:51:56 AM PST US From: "Kelly McMullen" Subject: Engines-List: Re: Splitting case of an IO-360-A3B6D --> Engines-List message posted by: "Kelly McMullen" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Engines-List Digest Server" Subject: Engines-List Digest: 1 Msgs - 10/26/05 * ================================================== Online Versions of Today's List Digest Archive ================================================== Today's complete Engines-List Digest can also be found in either of the two Web Links listed below. The .html file includes the Digest formatted in HTML for viewing with a web browser and features Hyperlinked Indexes and Message Navigation. The .txt file includes the plain ASCII version of the Engines-List Digest and can be viewed with a generic text editor such as Notepad or with a web browser. HTML Version: http://www.matronics.com/digest/engines-list/Digest.Engines-List.2005-10-26.html Text Version: http://www.matronics.com/digest/engines-list/Digest.Engines-List.2005-10-26.txt ================================================ EMail Version of Today's List Digest Archive ================================================ Engines-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Wed 10/26/05: 1 You need an A&P or engine shop that has a case splitting tool. You will destroy your parting surfaces if you try to pry it apart, and it won't come apart. The dowels do hold it together. The case splitter applies pressure on the crank journal to get enough leverage to overcome the press fit of the dowels. --> Engines-List message posted by: Scott Farner I am overhauling my IO-360-A3B6D (with A&P help, of course) and am a little confused over how to split the case. The parts manual clearly shows that there are four dowels that go all of the way through the case - two forward of cylinders 1&2, and two that are used to bolt on cylinders 1&2 - and that there are two studs that go through one side of the case and terminate inside the other side. My question is where in the front of the engine is pressure put to separate the case halves. I have the plates that bolt over the cylinder holes and are used to crank down on the studs in the rear, but there doesn't seem to be a place to do this on the front of the engine as it does not seem possible to use the through-dowels to push on the opposite case half. Thanks, Scott Farner RV-7A Fuse