Re: Carburetor install
Clint Lombard built it.
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Keith Klos
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#90065
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Re: Carburetor install
Keith-
who built the Baraboo W10??
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Tailwind14855
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#90064
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Re: Carburetor install
What are most people using to seal around? the airbox and the carb bowl where the drain plug and accelerator pump "bumps out"?? ?There are always some irregular openings there.? See the attached
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Keith Klos
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#90063
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Re: Carburetor install
The? O-235 uses the MPA 3 carb, MPA 4 for the O-320 and MPA 4.5 for O-360 engines. FYI, I have digitized an old VHS factory video on how to overhaul the Marvel Schebler style carbs. It's to big for
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Charles Kuss
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#90062
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Re: Carburetor install
Lycoming PN 60592 for Lycoming 0 235L series. It helps if you state engine model in first post. Also state whether W8 orW10.
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Tailwind14855
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#90061
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New FlyingTailwind on the Block!
Hi all,
Here are a few pics of Karl Frickelton's beautiful? W10.? Karl is based at Baraboo (KDLL).? It is one of the best built Tailwinds that I have seen.? He is flying off the remaining hours
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Keith Klos
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#90060
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Re: Carburetor install
I would think using rtv in this area would be a no go, but without having maitenence manuel, I had to ask.
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Greg Blake
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Re: Carburetor install
I attended an 8 hour seminar themed ¡°why you don¡¯t use rtv silicone on
airplanes¡±.
[email protected]> wrote:
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Christian Bobka
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#90058
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Re: Carburetor install
Greg, absolutely NO sealant on those gaskets, particularly, no RTV silicone. Gasoline dissolves RTV silicone.
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Charles Kuss
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#90057
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Re: Carburetor install
There are two oil sump carburetor mounting sizes. A big and a little. One
has 1/4¡± studs and the other has 5/16¡± studs. Spacing is different
See below for photos of each. An o-235 carb most
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Christian Bobka
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#90056
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Re: Carburetor install
Thank you all for the feedback! I have the ma3spa carb that is used on cessna 152 and I have been looking through various 152 maitenence manuels for information specifically for type of screws/bolts,
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Greg Blake
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#90055
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Re: Carburetor install
The carb to sump gasket is Lycoming Part number 66224
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Tailwind14855
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Re: Carburetor install
Funny, My Dad was a Pilot in the Army Air Corp! He said what was driven into his brain during training was, ¡°If it moves you solute it , if not you paint it!¡± Thanks for the memories!
John
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John Haedtler
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#90053
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Re: Carburetor install
For Experimental one can do anything they want. Were one rebuilding a Lycoming engine for a certified aircraft it is flat washer, star washer and nut. There seem to be exceptions for exhaust only.
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Tailwind14855
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Re: Carburetor install
John, I know the probable origin of that statement. My father, an Army
Air Corps squadron executive officer early in WWII, frequently said:
"There's the right way, the wrong way and the Army
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Dion Dyer
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Re: Carburetor install
Alex, I brought up the same question back in the early 70¡¯s in my A&P school. The teachers answer =Just, Because that is what Lycoming says to do it. I then asked , Then why does Pratt & Whittney
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John Haedtler
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Re: Carburetor install
Jim, not disputing your answer but something has always bothered me about the way as you stated "flat washer then star washer and nut. I know I have read that almost in every assy manual and I think
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Alex Frizzell
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Re: Carburetor install
For airbox to carb use drilled head screws or bolts. Safety the sides in pairs.
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Tailwind14855
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Re: Carburetor install
Between carb and sump is Lycoming part number. Between carb and airbox is airframe pn. I use Piper Cherokee pn. I don't have either pn handy. Lycoming is easy to find online. Any carb 0 320 works.
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Tailwind14855
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Carburetor install
I have a question pertaining to the install of the carb onto both intake manifold and the air box? I'm assuming a gasket is used? Is there a gasket on both surfaces? Should any gasket sealant be used
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Greg Blake
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