ORIGINAL: estradajae

Hi everybody

A flying mate gave me his engine for a bearing change....it was quite rough but the engine was running good and strong....anyway I disassembled the engine and look what I've found apart from rusty with lots of play bearings (he always used omega on this engine)....

He said engine is about one year old...sat for a while and then he brought it back into service, but he aske me always for help with his engines...

I disassembled, cleaned with a brass brush, and put it back together...compression is good but there is no pinch.... let´s see how it performs on sunday, as said before, the engine was running strong (about 13000 with mas 11x6 at about 2500m over sea level)

Too bad that this kind of things happen....and it is quite complicated to claim a warranty here because most of the engines that we get here is because we bring them from the usa, and shipping it from here costs very much. We have no O.S reps or something that would honor any warranty...

Saludos,
Jorge