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Marv, I hope Brendan gave some thought to what may have happened to his
engine if the prop hit hard enough to trash it. If the strike was severe
enough to cause a sudden engine stoppage or at the least, require complete
replacement of the prop, some very nasty things could have occurred inside
the engine.

>From the forces resulting from a prop strike/sudden stoppage, the crank can
suffer a crack if not outright failure. If the engine is a type that
incorporates counterweights (harmonic dampeners), they can get flailed
around bad enough to be ruined and at the least, the prop flange can bent
out of limits.

Just replacing the prop may be false economy.

Dan Schaefer

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