Categories: Maintenance and Improvements, Braking system, Don't Do This..., Intercom Replacement, Oil Consumption, The Cabin Heating Saga, The Cooling Saga, The Nosedragger Club, True Confessions aka I Have Been A Fool
Installed new baffling at rear of engine
by Graham 
This weekend, Jesse and I worked on installing a replacement piece of baffling under the rear of the engine. This piece of baffling is suspended from the rear cylinder enclosure baffling. Its purpose is to fill the gap between the bottom of the engine an… more »
Cooling issue - broken baffle
by Graham
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have been working at intervals over the last 2 years to try and reduce engine operating temperatures following a rebuild from 150bhp to 160bhp.
I had reached the point a few months back where I could run at… more »
Work on Annual completed....
by Graham
...and the plane is signed off for another year of flying. Tomorrow Jesse and I will complete a compression test on the engine in Cleburne.
Then it will be back to flying, until the Fall improvements take place (money permitting). On the list for Fall… more »
Nosewheel inner tube punctures
by Graham
The nose wheel on a Long-EZE is a small-diameter wheel more usually used on taildraggers (which makes sense, since the Long-EZ is essentially a reverse tail-dragger with a castoring nosewheel).
This wheel is part of a more marginal part of the plane; t… more »
Categories: Maintenance and Improvements, True Confessions aka I Have Been A Fool
05/30/06 01:48:06 pm,
05/30/06 01:48:06 pm, The Caliper Piston Incident - 2001
by Graham
When I first started transition training on the plane in August 2000, we suffered a brake failure on the ramp at Marco Island. This was caused by a caliper piston o-ring failure. The failed o-ring was replaced.
Since both o-rings had originally been in… more »
Categories: Maintenance and Improvements, True Confessions aka I Have Been A Fool
05/30/06 01:06:48 pm,
05/30/06 01:06:48 pm,