"Brian D. Cain" wrote:

Good to hear that others are using this stuff.  I installed

my o-rings

during the said rebuild a few years ago without any

knowledge of

anyone else ever having used them.  To date, they're still

holding up.

Granted, I may not
have hundreds of hours on but I do know that I've put many

miles on the

engine nonetheless including some very heavy load duty.

Needless to say,

I'm very impressed with them and am ecstatic about

upgrading the internals

this way.

Chuck, do you have an email addr out there I could email

you privately

with?

Thanks for the info.  I'll be pursuing this further.

B

I know Paul you do not like to publish email addresses but

you have my

permission :-) I can always change it again if I start getting too
much spam

Chuck Dunlap
dunlapc@aznex.net

Chuck I know you made it as far as Texas on the way to Shady Bend.
Weather related. How many hours do you now have on the new
motor with the TES oil control O-rings?

Paul Lamar

You guessed right on, Paul, about 10 hours so far. I wish I could have
made it through the weather, I was disappointed I could not make it to
the Rotary Roundup. I need to fix a new oil leak at the front of the RD1
redrive since I have much higher oil pressure now. I am also now in the
process of prepping to paint the plane so it will be a couple of weeks
until I can put more hours on it.
BTW the TES o-rings were harder to install because of the stiffness, I
got them on by pushing  as much as I could and then waiting overnight
for them to take a set, then pushed them the rest of the way on the next
day. Used an old oil ring to apply pressure.

Chuck

You will need a little O-ring lube and a 2 by 8 to install them. 

One of the secrets is if you reuse the old oil scraper rings
they must be spotlessly clean inside and out. Soak them
in carb cleaner for a few days. If you use new scraper rings
this will not be a problem of course.

The second thing to watch out for is don't nick the 
rotor wall between the two scraper rings when you remove them.
Very very important!!


The proper sizes are:

0.093" section 4.68 inch ID 
0.118" section 4.33 inch ID 

 
The AirCraft Rotary Engine NewsLetter.              Powered by Linux.
ACRE NL web site.
http://home.earthlink.net/~rotaryeng/            http://www.linux.org





 
The AirCraft Rotary Engine NewsLetter.  Powered by Linux.
ACRE NL web site. http://home.earthlink.net/~rotaryeng/            
Copyright 1998-2002 All world wide rights reserved.