wayne.e(at)grandecom.net
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 Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:46 pm Post subject: Mounting the engine |
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I'm feeling a little pumped tonight in that we got the engine mounted today, picture attached. Other than wanting to toot our horn I wanted to pass along what experience we had in mounting the engine.
I have a friend from Iowa who came down this weekend to help me install the engine. He is an A&P and runs a small airport just outside of Des Moines. So when I say we, I actually should probably be saying he, since he did the bulk of the thinking on this, since he's done this many times.
Anyway we began by attaching the upper two mounts, because he said that this method normal works the best. But in doing this we ran into a problem where we couldn't seem to get the bottom two mounts aligned to get the bolts in. I had remembered reading something about this on Tim Olson's web site and so I pulled out the instructions he had on his web site from my file and Walla, he had experienced the same problem.
The solution that he found that worked for him was to attach the lower two mounts first and the work on the upper mounts. So we tried this method and it work on the first try. Thanks Tim, I might still be out there had I not read that tip. It only took us about 1 1/2 to 2 hours to have the engine mounted even with the false start. So, based on our experience, and Tim's, I would suggest using this method when installing your engine.
Wayne Edgerton $40336
putting on the prop tomorrow
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