Toasted my engine

Kobra wrote:
The story goes on though. As he was taking the engine off he found one
other interesting item. One of the through-bolt nuts on the bottom of
cylinder number 3 was sheared off completely flush the cylinder base.
That's when the hair on the back of my neck stood up. I have to think that
all this was related as the nut was still laying in the bottom of the
engine. This was recent!



You definitely need to head off to the temple and sacrifice a virgin... you're
being well looked after. I congratulate you on your good luck, conscientious
A&P, and your good sense to be aware of such minor anomalies.

I've had the pleasure of a catastrophic engine failure in a single... and it
really ain't.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE

"Kobra" wrote in message
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Flyers,

The story goes on though. As he was taking the engine off he found one
other interesting item. One of the through-bolt nuts on the bottom of
cylinder number 3 was sheared off completely flush the cylinder base.
That's when the hair on the back of my neck stood up. I have to think
that
all this was related as the nut was still laying in the bottom of the
engine. This was recent!

Next I had a recollection of starting the engine before my flight to WWD
and
I remember that I heard a "snap!" just as the engine caught. It was loud
enough to make me say, "...what the %$#@ was that?!" and just soft enough
for me to dismiss it and ponder, "...did you really hear what you think
you
heard?"

I'm not that knowledgeable about the internal details of the engines, so
could you explain how that bolt could get sheared off?

Any speculations would be understood as being such.


--
Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

I'm not that knowledgeable about the internal details of the engines, so
could you explain how that bolt could get sheared off?


See my post about three lines up under . I found some info in
the Cardinal Flyers group.

Kobra

Already gone from my screen...oh well!


"Kobra" wrote in message
...
I'm not that knowledgeable about the internal details of the engines, so
could you explain how that bolt could get sheared off?


See my post about three lines up under . I found some info in
the Cardinal Flyers group.

Kobra

"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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Already gone from my screen...oh well!

I take that back, it finally showed up my my ISP's news server today...three
days later.

Lemme take a look...



"Kobra" wrote in message
...
I'm not that knowledgeable about the internal details of the engines,
so
could you explain how that bolt could get sheared off?


See my post about three lines up under . I found some info
in
the Cardinal Flyers group.

Kobra