Hi Bobby,
I believe the things you have the arrows pointing to are triangular shaped
braces that support the oil sump to the oil pan. The are welded to top of
sump and plate.
To access the bolts in the area of the sump, I stood the 4”x 4” tubing I
used for the sump off from the pan about 1 – 1 1/2”. I did this by using a
1” x 1 1/2” rectangular tube (its end’s plugged) welded to both the plate and
the sump. Then 3/4” dia (I think around 6 holes) holes were drilled
through plate, standoff and sump for the oil to return to the sump – probably
best to drill holes before welding components together, but they can be drilled
from the inside plate side – just make sure you get all shavings out. This
stand-off also gave you access to around 3-4 pan bolts. Depending on your
set up these may or may not be a pain to unscrew, but it can be
done.
The round tall blue tube served as oil fill tube and dip stick tube. It was
threaded internally at the top and a threaded plug with a hole drilled in it for
the dip stick was used.
The aluminum tubes were coolant (front) and air/oil separator (which I took
off after two years of flying with it and it collecting no oil, because the
rotary simply was not spitting any out.
Ed
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 2:57 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Questions for Ed Anderson- Plugs UP Oil
System
Ed,
I have a couple of question about your plug up installation.
How do you access the oil pan bolts located behind the oil reservoir and allow
for oil drain back? Also I see what looks like an additional tube (black arrow)
in the attached photo. Can’t figure out what it’s for. Is it a support
bracket?
Thanks,
Bobby Hughes
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