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BOB'S WEB SITE
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Date: 6-26-2020
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Number of Hours: 2.00
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Manual Reference: Section 46
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Brief Description: Uncrated the ROTAX 912iS
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With the warning from Van's I calibrated the two torque wrenches I had, borrowing a 10 and 15 pound weight from my son, Patrick. The foot pound torque wrench was properly adjusted but I couldn't get the inch pound adjustment one right. So I decided just to order a new Craftsman version, which means I had to drive 30 miles to River Falls, Wis., now the closest Sears store. Still didn't test out right, so I think I'll weigh the weight. Then, of course, I'll need to calibrate the scale I weigh it on. And on and on it goes.
Anyway, it was time to move the ROTAX from its shipping crate to a work area and I'm glad I bought an engine hoist years ago when installing the IO-360 in N614EF.
The ROTAX manual is excellent (it's online) and I found the two lifting holes and the engine leveler fit nicely. Still, though, two bolts for a $35,000 engine made me nervous. But I lifted it high enough to get it out of the crate, moved it past the crate, and then lowered it to near the ground -- I put a pillow underneath it all the way -- just in case something snapped and it fell.
It didn't fall, but I got it put on a one inch sheet of plywood across three sawhorses to work on it. I kept the shipping brackets on the engine for now to provide stability.
Meanwhile, I heard back from Tony Kirk at Van's that the P-150 should not have a #8 ring on it because that won't fit onto the master cylinder stuff. So these cables were not made properly and I'll have to get a new one even though I drilled out the hole to a bigger size (not fun). I've always had problems getting fat cables from Van's. On the last plane they didn't crimp any of the terminals; just put heat shrink on.
And so it goes.
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