Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #11303
From: Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>
Subject: Engine off the floor
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:50:53 -0400
To: Deltaflyers <Deltaflyers@ernest.isa-geek.org>, Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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I've got my mount welded together and mounted on the firewall.  To my great suprise, it actually fit the first time.  I did have to cut a section out of the oil pan, but I'm now thinking that I'll cut even more off.  The oil pan is made or .060 steel.  Instead of sandwiching in a 1/4" aluminum plate as Tracy suggests in the conversion manual, I'm thinking that I can weld  1/4" 4130 ears onto the oil pan, with a couple of 'arms' extending down the sides to pick up several of the oil pan bolts.  My first thought is that each ear would have 8 bolts, plus have 6 to 8 linear inches of weld to the oil pan.

After this, I only have one large welding job left, that being the canopy.

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