2004 Flight from KKLS

2004 Flight from KKLS
This photo is from when I was flying the airplane out of Longview, WA. This was taken early in the morning..

RV-6 #25188 in flight

RV-6 #25188 in flight
Doug Eves sent this photo of the Ol' girl in flight. Taken from the ground, this is a great shot. You can see he is "relaxing" in his office in the sky...

Monday, July 28, 2008

Going backwards!

I was reading through the ECi supplements and I came across one for the oil pump body. It says that the little hole on the side of the pump needs to be plugged up if you don't have fuel pump gears to lubricate. For the life of me, I cannot remember if I checked that or not. I took pics of the pump but only when it was mounted on the assy case and safetied wired. So I decided to take the assy case of and double check. It only took about a half hour to get the parts off the assy case and sump off. I double checked the pump and there was no hole at all so I was in the clear. Now I am telling you all of this because this is a lesson in learning to build engines. I would rather spend a half day pulling apart my engine to double check something just to be sure than spend the rest of my life dead because I have my pride. Swallow your pride and get out the wrenches. My family will be flying with me and I need to have that confidence that I did everything right. I put all of the parts back on the engine and I have peace of mind. I also read through all of there bulletins and checked to make sure there was nothing else that I missed.
I am still waiting on my spring compressor to arrive and small flap wheel so I can finish polishing those ports in the hard to reach areas. I also am trying to figure out how the valve springs go on the cylinder heads. There is a inner and outter valve spring and there is a top and bottom to the spring itself. It's very hard to tell, but they said the double coil is supposed to go towards the bottom. Now maybe I am not seeing this but there is not double coil. The only difference I can see is that one of the sides is not as tapered down as the other. Called ECI and sent a picture so they could inform me which way it goes. They seem to be very helpful and are working on it as I write this blog. I will get back and let you know what is going on. A picture is posted to let you decide what is up and what is down.

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