Ducman82

a rag in the bottom of the pan, is better than connecting rod nuts....

VehiGAZ

+928

Livio928

Wow is all I can say!

docmirror

Which brings up an interesting story. A few years back, I contacted a guy who was restoring an old plane. Sadly, it wound up in a farmers field, having landed at night with no power because the idiot mechanic forgot to switch tanks. duh.

But - that's not the really stupid part of the story. I fixed the gear, and was ready to fly it out of the farmers field, and before leaving was doing a thorough job of inspecting the work done during restoration. So, with my little flashlight, I'm peeking and poking in various parts of the plane, and I come across a 7/16x24 black anodized nut sitting in the valley between the air cooled cylinders(think live old VW style). Hmmmmm? I says to myself, this is an important looking nut to be lying around, lets have a closer look where it could have come from.

As I begin to investigate further, I get a mirror and look up under the cylinder base and see a crankcase to cylinder stud - with no nut on it! Wow - how could someone replace a cylinder and not put that nut on tight? So, I reach around to the other nuts on that cylinder and THEY ARE ALL LOOSE! Not only was the guy flying around without knowing how to switch fuel tanks, but he was literally minutes away from having the cylinder depart the crankcase in flight. Gulp.

It was at that moment that I hired Sean to go up with me and pull the wings off and trailer the whole thing back home. Which is a story in itself, including a broken tail ring, with the plane tail pointing up in the air, and a good looking farmers daughter willing to help any way she could. Oh yeah.

Bilal928S4

And where did reality end and fantasy start?

soontobered84

Honest to God, Bilal, I could post a picture of Sean at this point that would give you a whole new perspective on this story, but I won't.