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Date:  11-11-2015
Number of Hours:  4.00
Manual Reference:  Section 2
Brief Description:  She lives!

Great news and Bad news. The great news is that my UL Power engine parts have FINALLY come back to me. Today makes it 4.5 months since she last flew due to UL Power's "fabulous" customer service where the customer always comes last. So I unpackage everything, re-install it all and fire her up. She fires right up and I let her idle long enough to get the oil temps hot enough to upen the vernatherm and let oil flood the oil cooler. It was nice to see it take a good 15 minutes to reach 215 degrees so I decided to shut her down after this. I put her back in the hangar and went over the install to make sure everything was kosher when I found that my oil cooler fitting had failed and was leaking oil pretty bad. Probably lost a good 1/2 cup in a few minutes time. GAH! This was the problematic fitting as well and I KNEW it could have been a problem. I should have used steel fittings.
I've ordered 2 new steel fittings today and they should be here monday. I'm just hoping I haven't ruined my oil cooler threads beyond repair. I will either re-tap the cooler myself, send it in for repair and overhaul, Or return it to spruce if they are feeling like showing me some love. I'd prefer a brand new one, but I'll do what I gotta do. It was my fault for using aluminum fittings here.
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The parts are back!

The parts are back!

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Ready for test run

Ready for test run

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Bad oil leak at fitting.

Bad oil leak at fitting.

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