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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:28:45 -0500
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
From: CCI <brecab@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: EMU in the wild -> RV-3 engine mount
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Glad to be able to answer your question, Finn, this is what this list is 
good for, pointing out things that may get overlooked ( there are a lot of 
RV people out there that don't know that there was ever a problem with the 
RV-3,4 mounts for instance).  Fred(thanking Rusty for the website plug)


At 09:14 AM 3/10/2004, you wrote:
>Thanks Fred.
>
>I'll try to pay attention the next time Rusty (or you) posts a picture of 
>the engine mount.
>
>Finn
>
>CCI wrote:
>>
>>To address Finn's concern, Rusty sent me the original Lycoming mount for 
>>the mount points, Adding the "fix" while seeming to take care of the 
>>failures, Van had already designed a better way with the RV-6,7,&9 
>>mounts. Rusty's mount is just a smaller version of this design. It 
>>addresses all the issues with the original mount with the addition of 
>>another mount point, two diagonal braces, and two shorter tubes welded to 
>>the gear sockets to solve the tortional socket twist problems. The gear 
>>leg geometry is much more robust than stock mount. Fred