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Hi Mike,=C2- =C2- =C2- =C2- Sad to learn you sold your Glasair and
will be your last post.=C2-With today's youth more interest in staring at
Ipads, your parting=C2-company could mark the beginning of the end of a
=C2-wonderful dynasty: the Glasair movement.=C2-I also feel future=C2
-=C2-descendantswill marvel over Glasair builders flying the skies=C2
-doing 200 to 300 mph in beautiful fiberglass planes built in=C2- basem
ents.=C2-1920's African bush pilot=C2- Byrl Markham wrote in her book:
=C2-West With The Night: When aviation evolves into just the push of=C2
-a button, will our descendants wonder if these ancients were=C2-naviga
tors of the sea or the sky? That haunting thought was goingthrough my mind
when Debbie was at the controls of our 200 h.p.Glasair 2SFT on a return tri
p from Florida's' Gold Coast when our GPS wasshowing a 226 mph ground speed
.=C2-=C2-
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=C2- =C2- 1. 11:10 AM - If your propeller governor leaks at the mountin
g bolts=C2- (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 bol
ts
We sold our Glasair last month, so I expect this will be my last post on th
is list.
But before I unsubscribe, I wanted to leave some information about oil leak
s in
prop governors.
Just before we sold our Glasair, oil started leaking from the upper mountin
g 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 m
ounting
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 i
nside
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.) Bu
t 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 Prop
eller
in Akron, CO.)
I make this post because, while researching this problem on the web, I foun
d 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 curi
ng
the underlying problem.
Hope this helps.
Farewell.
Mike Palmer <><
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