Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #32380
From: Bob White <rlwhite@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: RD1-C install
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:52:01 -0600
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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. --
http://www.bob-white.com
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