X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [129.116.87.142] (HELO MAIL01.austin.utexas.edu) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 1114185 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 15 May 2006 12:29:46 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=129.116.87.142; envelope-from=mark.steitle@austin.utexas.edu X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: water pump bolts - warning Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:29:02 -0500 Message-ID: <87DBA06C9A5CB84B80439BA09D86E69E049470F2@MAIL01.austin.utexas.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [FlyRotary] Re: water pump bolts - warning Thread-Index: AcZ4PD5mjAu5TZhMR7mN0JUxYi4PNgAAFSyw From: "Mark R Steitle" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" -----Original Message----- From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Bulent Aliev Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:25 AM To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: water pump bolts - warning On May 15, 2006, at 12:16 PM, David Staten wrote: > >> Have you thought about those two crap bolts that hold the oil =20 >> pickup tube onto the engine? >> Shouldn't they be high quality socket head cap screws, torqued and =20 >> safety wired together? >> Lynn E. Hanover > > In my case.. I replaced those bolts with high grade metric hex head =20 > bolts, drilled them for safety wire, torqued and wired them. =20 > Especially since they were located where I could not check them. > Dave > I did the same and thought about it all by myself :). Did not think =20 about the WP ones? Buly http://tinyurl.com/dcy36 Same here. Sounds like a "Best Practices" item. =20 Mark S.