Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #6425
From: Finn Lassen <finnlassen@netzero.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Pin Hole Coolant Leak
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:01:51 -0500
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
JB Weld.
1) Drain the system so that coolant level is well below leak points.
2) Dry and clean with alcohol or acetone
3) Hook up a vacumn pump (vacumn cleaner, or some other vacumn pump)  to the system
4) Mix and apply JB Weld.

The idea is to get the JB Weld to flow into the pin holes.

Others have had good luck sealing leaks in fuel tanks using green (?) Locktite.

Good luck!

Finn

David Leonard wrote:
Today I discovered several pin-hole leaks in my cooling system (one drop every several minutes).  They are coming from a weld on the water pump housing.

Please tell me someone knows a good way to seal such leaks.  A re-weld would probably require removing the entire engine  :<

I also made the first attempted start today.  Turns out I have no spark...   Guess I won`t be the first to go down that road.  I connected the signal from the CAS in parallel with the engine monitor.  That connection will be the first to go.

Dave Leonard


  
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