---------------------------------------------------------- RV-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sat 04/24/10: 6 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 12:08 PM - weather strip installation (thomas sargent) 2. 01:20 PM - Re: weather strip installation (Ed Anderson) 3. 03:46 PM - Re: weather strip installation (Richard Dudley) 4. 05:02 PM - ECI pushrod tube clip failures (Al & Gail Herron) 5. 06:48 PM - Starter turns wrong direction (Louis Willig) 6. 09:54 PM - Re: Starter turns wrong direction (John D.) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 12:08:01 PM PST US Subject: RV-List: weather strip installation From: thomas sargent There is a weather strip that's supposed to be installed on the 6A between the wing-root gap fairing and the fuselage. It seals up that last 1/4" or so of space. It tried installing that for the first time last night and got no where. Is it best to try to put in on the gap filler fairing before you screw the fairing down, or after the fairing is mounted? If after it's mounted, can you slide it on or just force it on with... what?... a screw driver, your fingers, special tool....? Any hints would be appreciated. -- Tom Sargent, RV-6A, almost ready to weigh. ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 01:20:29 PM PST US From: "Ed Anderson" Subject: RE: RV-List: weather strip installation Tom I've never tried to install the fairing strip without the weather strip installed on the fairing. I initially put the rubber strip on and held it in place with a number of strategically place rubber bands around the rubber and fairing. I then placed it up against the fuselage and started screwing down the fairing starting from the underneath and worked my way around the leading edge, onto the top and down the wing to the trailing edge. The rubber bands can be cut and easily removed. But, after I did it that way a couple of times, I found the rubber bands unnecessary. I'm sure there are other ways, but that worked for me. Good luck Ed Ed Anderson Rv-6A N494BW Rotary Powered Matthews, NC eanderson@carolina.rr.com http://www.andersonee.com http://www.dmack.net/mazda/index.html http://www.flyrotary.com/ http://members.cox.net/rogersda/rotary/configs.htm#N494BW http://www.rotaryaviation.com/Rotorhead%20Truth.htm _____ From: owner-rv-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-rv-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of thomas sargent Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 2:56 PM Subject: RV-List: weather strip installation There is a weather strip that's supposed to be installed on the 6A between the wing-root gap fairing and the fuselage. It seals up that last 1/4" or so of space. It tried installing that for the first time last night and got no where. Is it best to try to put in on the gap filler fairing before you screw the fairing down, or after the fairing is mounted? If after it's mounted, can you slide it on or just force it on with... what?... a screw driver, your fingers, special tool....? Any hints would be appreciated. -- Tom Sargent, RV-6A, almost ready to weigh. ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 03:46:37 PM PST US From: "Richard Dudley" Subject: Re: RV-List: weather strip installation Hi Tom, On my 6A, I always applied the strip to the fairing as I installed the fairing. I never tried to appy it after the fairing was in place. That worked well for me through all the occasions of initial assembly, annuals and tank service bulletins. The gap is fairly small and I expected that it would be difficult to instal the strip after the fairing was in place. RHDudley -6A ----- Original Message ----- From: thomas sargent To: rv-list Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 2:56 PM Subject: RV-List: weather strip installation There is a weather strip that's supposed to be installed on the 6A between the wing-root gap fairing and the fuselage. It seals up that last 1/4" or so of space. It tried installing that for the first time last night and got no where. Is it best to try to put in on the gap filler fairing before you screw the fairing down, or after the fairing is mounted? If after it's mounted, can you slide it on or just force it on with... what?... a screw driver, your fingers, special tool....? Any hints would be appreciated. -- Tom Sargent, RV-6A, almost ready to weigh. ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 05:02:55 PM PST US From: "Al & Gail Herron" Subject: RV-List: ECI pushrod tube clip failures I just completed the first annual condition inspection on my -7A (has it really been a year since I shoved that throttle home the first time?) and got couple of rude surprises. First, all 4 of my ECI cylinders are subject to the recall and will have to be removed and replaced. Good news is: they all passed inspection, ECI will repair/replace them free (except for my labor) and with only 80 hours on the mill I can put that off till next winter. Now for the second item. I'd had a couple of annoying oil leaks at the bases of the pushrod tubes. My mechanic showed me how to repair these, and with a good set of compression numbers on the jugs and a handful of new seals I set off to the hangar to fix the leaks. When I pulled the first rocker cover off, I spotted a piece of metal out place at the bottom of the rocker housing. It didn't take long to figure out where it came from. If you're not familiar, just above the rocker arm assemblies on a Lycoming is a thin metal clip with two "ears" that hold the pushrod tubes in. On my engine (TMX-360), 5 out of the 8 ears had fractured; two had fallen off, the other three separated as soon as the hold-down nut was removed. Aside from the resulting oil leaks, one of the loose pieces had intermittently wedged between the rocker cover and one of the valve retainers. There was a nice little "cowl bump" hammered out from the inside at my #2 exhaust valve! This finally explained the intermittent (maybe once or twice per flight hour) stumble I'd been getting - the loose piece was sometimes holding the valve partially open. I called both Mattituck (who I'm no longer upset with for oil leaks on a brand new engine - not their fault) and ECI. The ECI guy rather off-handedly remarked "oh, yeah, we had a batch of those clips that were badly heat-treated and became hydrogen-embrittled. They break sometimes". Oh, really? So do airplanes that have to land places other than airports when their engines quit, sometimes. Thanks for letting me know. I found nothing about it on the ECI S/B list. Anyway, enough rant. Bottom line: it only takes a few minutes to check this, all you have to do is pull the rocker cover and the little nut holding the pushrod tube clip. I've replaced mine with Lycoming parts, they were only a few dollars and a few minutes each. Al Herron N401MT ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 06:48:04 PM PST US From: Louis Willig Subject: RV-List: Starter turns wrong direction Hi gang, Today I replaced my old, but working, Mark Landoll starter with a brand new MagnaFlight MZ-6220 starter. It turns in the wrong direction!!!!. I'm stumped. I replaced the Landoll unit and everything is normal. A quick bench test with a 12 V. battery shows the starter turns in the wrong direction. Uhhh. Anybody know what's going on? Louis I Willig 1640 Oakwood Dr. Penn Valley, PA 19072 610 668-4964 RV-4, N180PF 190HP IO-360, C/S prop ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 09:54:38 PM PST US From: "John D." Subject: Re: RV-List: Starter turns wrong direction Louis, That starter is for a LIO-360 not an IO-360 John D. 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