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Date:  9-29-2007
Number of Hours:  2.50
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Brief Description:  Oil cooler installation

Hung the oil cooler from the latest bracket. Added the baffle, trimmed similar to what Michael Crowder did for his oil cooler. Took about 2 hours to get this baffle trimmed, redrilled, bent up, and the extra bottom cross tie made up. After all that, I got the cowling out from the spare bedroom and put the right side approximately in place on the engine. I will not be surprised if this oil cooler setup hangs too low for the cowling. There's a little bit that can be trimmed from that lower cross tie, and the cooler could be rehung a little higher. Spent about 1/2 hour checking engine alignment. It shows dead on right to left. A hair nose-down. So sometime when Don is available again (and I've made up some shims), we will unhang the engine, shim the bottom mounts up a little and rehang it.
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Oil cooler tin marked for trimming.  (Already cut off the aft flange.)

Oil cooler tin marked for trimming. (Already cut off the aft flange.)

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Trimming done, next bend it and drill it.

Trimming done, next bend it and drill it.

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Oil cooler in place about 5/8

Oil cooler in place about 5/8" aft of the sump.

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