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Eddie's Zodiac XL Project
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Date: 12-4-2006
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Number of Hours: 0.00
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Brief Description: Engine and Prop arrive
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I had an early Christmas present this afternoon, I got home to find my engine and prop (60 dia x 53 pitch) waiting for me, there was some slight damage to the bottom of the engine box where two fork lift blades had entered the box, but luckily no damage to the engineor other bits. Of course I had to unpack it to check this and also do an inventory of delivered parts. I am now just missing my oil cooler which is on back order. Down side to this is I get charged extra frieght each time, but hey its cheap compared to everything else so far. The engine is a beautiful thing, I will try and hang the engine on the airframe this week sometime, athough I am unsure if I need to mount the airbox before I do this or not, guess I will check to see if I can still get a drill in behind the engine mount with the mount in place. After inventory I put the box back together and dragged it into the garage, the box, bits and engine weigh about 100kg so you can slide it around easily enough. One pain though is the muffler does not have the exhaust pipe fitted, I guess to allow for custom installations, that however means driling / cutting a very big hole and then getting it welded...also a little pecular is the fact that there is only one exhast pipe, but its rather large as you can just see in image 2, its the bit with all the holes in the end.
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Christmas present waiting in the driveway this afternoon, notice the fork lift damge at the bottom
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Checking contents, no damage to the engine or other parts
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All nicely shrink warpped to protect from dust and moisture
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