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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:52:01 -0600
From: Bob White <rlwhite@comcast.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: RD1-C install
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:48:06 EDT
ARGOLDMAN@aol.com wrote:

>  
> In a message dated 6/21/2006 3:27:29 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
> eanderson@carolina.rr.com writes:
> 
> Hi  Bill,
> 
> Getting to second question first.  The only way I could  figure to get a 
> torque wrench on those dampener bolts was to borrow  a  "Crows Feet" socket . 
> The look like the end of a open end wrench  that has been cut off with a 
> standard size hole punched for a socket  wrench.  You hook your torque wrench 
> on the end of one the proper  size and it will slide in with sufficient 
> clearance to get on the dampener  bolt.  A "Crows Feet" socket/wrench looks 
> like  this:
> 
> 
> 
> Bill, 
>  
> If you are going to use the crows foot attachment, remember that you have  to 
> calculate the actual torque provided by the indicated torque on  the  wrench. 
> There is a formula for that. Depending on what angle your torque wrench  is 
> to the actual nut/bolt, your delivered torque will be different.
>  
> Rich
> 


Hi Bill,

It's been a while since I installed mine so I may be remembering this
incorrectly.  I think I snugged the bolts up, then rotated the flywheel
until each bolt was accessible thru the starter hole.  I probably
needed an extension on the torque wrench, but you don't have to
recalibrate it.

Bob W. 

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