Hey Bernie, thanks for the complements. Yes it is a dummy engine. I have some photo's of the process. I have an original G-23 with a magnito. The only thing I don't like is that it has a B&B box muffler. It keeps the oil in too long and causes it to cook and comes out black! The Pratt 450 manual says that when they are rebuilt it should use about one gallon an hour and when it gets to three gallons an hour it is time to rebuild it. Mine looks like it has a six plus burn! It's worse than wiping glow fuel off! I use the gas mixture to break it down. Does pretty good.
I couldn't install the cowl and engine in one piece so what I did was to drill three holes in the collar that the engine slides into and put back up wood in the engine as a 'nut' and also had to put a tab in the lower left hole in front of the engine and extend a tab down and put a screw thru the left bottom cut up cylinder to steady it. I had to really butcher the bottom two cylinders up to keep them. You can see one of the holes if you look closely. I also filled the two cylinders with micro balloon epoxy for strength. Wasn't much left of them.
Your DI was an exception in those days. They were pretty tough and called you everything but your name! Now they can't be mean to you anymore. As far as I'm concerned it really seperated the boy's form the men. Not as many 'girly boys' got thru back then. Anyway, can't say too much about that cause you don't have 'freedom of speach' in everything, just what they want you to say! Which of those ammendments were we fighting for? I wish they would at least list them. Viet Nam, 1970-1971. No big deal!
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Sorry but I keep editing this thing!
Yes they are new gear. They are cracked already too. Sounds like a neat idea you have. I took my old ones apart and it looks like they cast them and then overlayed them with glass cloth and finished them. There needs to be an AD put out on them! hehe! Perhaps they can relieve the fit area and give them an eigth of an inch or so, so they don't press against the fuselage. As long as this bird has been out surely they have seen the problem. That rubber you are talking about needs to be paintable with fuel proof stuff.
later.