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     1. 11:10 AM - If your propeller governor leaks at the mounting bolts  (mppalmer@aol.com)
 
 
 
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Time: 11:10:31 AM PST US
From: mppalmer@aol.com
Subject: Glasair-List: If your propeller governor leaks at the mounting bolts

We sold our Glasair last month, so I expect this will be my last post on this list.

But before I unsubscribe, I wanted to leave some information about oil leaks in
prop governors.

Just before we sold our Glasair, oil started leaking from the upper mounting bolt
of the governor. (McCauley governor, mounted on the rear of the case of an
O-320 Lyc.)

I had just rebuilt the engine and had reused the prop governor gasket. So I thought
this would be an easy fix - just buy a new governor gasket.

That didn't fix it.

To make a long story short, the fix is to overhaul the prop governor.

It turns out that there's an internal O-ring in the governor, between the mounting
pad and the governor body proper.

Here's a link to a photo: ibb.co/CvQNpBZ

Our governor had 20 years (and 3000 hours) on it. There is a large O-ring inside
the unit that fits in a tear drop shaped groove in the mounting pad.

You can see that ours had hardened and had taken a set. It wasn't sealing.

I replaced the O-ring. (A special part. Got to get it from a prop shop.) But in
our case, the groove had corroded (you can see it on the right side of the tear
drop), which prevented the O-ring from sealing.

A replacement governor solved the problem. (I recommend Dan at Redline Propeller
in Akron, CO.)

I make this post because, while researching this problem on the web, I found a
few guys recommending the use of red Loctite on the mounting studs. THAT is NOT
the solution to this problem. It might stop the symptom. But it is not curing
the underlying problem.

Hope this helps.

Farewell.

Mike Palmer <><


 

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