[FlyRotary] Re: Engine damage
thoughts
I should
have thought of what Lynn said, when I
first posted. Check with your FBO. They'll almost
certainly know of a shop that can analyze your oil
(from the filter) for metallic contaminents.
The
filter has already been drained, but I didn't wash the screen.
I'm quite interested to take a closer look at it tomorrow, and even
have my magnifying glass next ready. There might well be some
drilling chips from the former oil cooler, but they should be easily
distinguishable from metal from the bearings. I figure I'll take
a close look tomorrow, then clean the filter, and reinstall it.
I'll probably use cheap oil for about an hour or two on the ground,
then will look at the filter again. If it's clean, I'll fill it
with good oil, and stay in gliding distance for at least 10 hours at
high power.
Rusty
Your oil will be clean as there will
be no bearing damage, when I blew an oil line and seized my engine and
restarted it three times after it cooled down so as to get to a better
landing spot the oil was so clean I could have reused
it.
This is a good thing to know as if
you find yourself in a similar situation wait about 30 seconds and you
can restart the engine and milk a little more out of it, what the hell
its toast any way and you will have to rebuild it so get your last
nickels worth out of it.
Pull the exhaust off and look
through the ports and you will find that at least the rear housing
will be blued from heat when the rotor expanded and seized to it, most
of the damage is on the inner part of the housing which you cannot see
but you will still be able to see some on the outer
sections.
Ken Welter
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