Awhile back I installed the Anti-Splat air/oil separator. Last fall I got a packet from them regarding a AD, indicating the exhaust valve should be checked for coking, and a “emergency bypass” that they sent me be installed in case the exhaust valve become blocked. Apparently an RV-10 was forced down as the engine stopped due […]
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Check out this maintenance article on cleaning the anti-splat air/oil separator. For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur. Quis aute […]
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Some of our friends (Andy and Mark) have reported good success with the AntiSplat system, so we’ve decided to take the plunge. We’ve always had a haze of oil on our cowling as our existing separator dumps at the cowling join line. I don’t know if the actual separator is better or if it’s mostly a function […]
Read MoreI got our building buddy Jerry Brainard to come by the hangar this afternoon to check the operation of the new MT with me, just to make sure the prop cycled properly and didn’t leak or do anything untoward. My first impression was it feels bigger than the Catto, though I haven’t checked and don’t […]
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We got our MT prop and governor mounted on the fox this week with the help of Jason at the airport maintenance shop. Its spinner mounts a little closer to the cowling than our Catto, so I need to clean the cowling just a bit before reinstalling it and running the engine to check the […]
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I covered this on the blog, but we’re going to be installing a new MT hydraulically-actuated propeller this weekend with help from the airport’s maintenance shop. The constant-speed propeller will allow us a lot of utility that we didn’t have with the Catto, though the plane performed pretty well on the fixed-pitch Catto. We have a […]
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