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1. 03:35 AM - Re: removing the oil filler tube (jrc)
2. 03:56 AM - Re: removing the oil filler tube (Kelly McMullen)
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| Subject: | Re: removing the oil filler tube |
Can you not reach the screw behind the filler tube with an offset
screwdriver?
JimC
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| Subject: | Re: removing the oil filler tube |
I'll assume you removed the safety wire at the base of the filler tube that
is supposed to keep it from coming off?? Yes, is is normal right hand
threads and usually comes loose just from folks tightening dipstick too
tight and then wrenching to remove dipstick.
On 9/15/07, Mick Muller <mmul6471@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
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> >
>
> Howdy all. I have a Lycoming O-320 E3D engine that I am installing in an
> RV9A. I am trying to remove the baffles. There is one screw that sits
> right
> behind the oil filler tube. To get to this screw I am going to have to
> take
> off the oil filler tube, which on this engine is plastic. I presume that
> this is a normal right hand thread and not left hand. I cannot get a
> spanner or wrench onto the bottom of the tube, but there is a "nut" about
> half up the tube. All my efforts so far have only succeeded in deforming
> the
> tube and the wrench slipping off. I am too scared of cracking this tube to
> grip it with vice grips, does anyone have a solution to this problem??
> Thanks,
> Mick
>
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