Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #65066
From: David COOK hoursaway1@comcast.net <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Broken Apex seal leads to dissassembly.
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 06:17:41 -0400 (EDT)
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>

I have a temp. sensor in pan where Mazda has a bung, temps can hit 230F on takeoff/climbout, hover around         215-220F  in cruise, 200-204F after cooler.

On August 24, 2019 at 12:13 AM "Andrew Martin andrew@martinag.com.au" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:

David. Take this oportunity to ditch the rx7 oil cooler. They are absolute junk. Only flow a fraction of the oil being pumped so oil in the pan is much hotter than is indicated.
Mocal or Setrab work.

On Sat, 24 Aug. 2019, 11:05 am David COOK hoursaway1@comcast.net, < flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:

Rads are evap. cores modified for -12 hoses (from GM full sized PU truck aprox. 2006), oil cooler is the Mazda RX7 cooler, upper eng. filter boss cut off and bypassed, remote oil filter w/-10 hoses,  rotor housings ok, rotors ok, E-shaft ok. One other note, Apex seals only had one spring under each?, vids that I have seen they show a long and a short spring, diff. design? David,,,,,,thanks for the info.

On August 23, 2019 at 12:58 PM "Matt Boiteau mattboiteau@gmail.com" < flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:

https://chipsmotorsports.com/ is in Detroit. Can lap and renitride the irons. Are your rotor housing okay?

Out of curiosity, what size rads do you have for coolant and oil ?

- Matt Boiteau

On 2019-08-23 12:54:26 PM, David COOK hoursaway1@comcast.net <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:

Am in need of info., where to send my irons ( all three), to be lapped or resurfaced, (or purchase some replacements) this is a 13B so the coolant seal grooves are in the irons.  I am in Lansing Michigan for distance reference. This was supposed to be a "professional" built eng. w/aviation mods. the mods are ok, but the wear in the irons in the combustion area looks more like MANY hrs. of use. I only put 80 hrs. on the hobbs. 20 was ground testing the rest in the air.  Temps ran 190F coolant, 202F oil, pretty regular.   Lubrication was 1oz. 2cyc.oil and 1/2 oz. MMOil for every gal. fuel.  On prep for Osh. trip the next day, wanted some T&G's, runup normal very strong could not hold back with brakes, aprox. 90% throttle about foot off runway started missing, set back down and at turn off to taxiway eng. quit running, had to lean EC2 all the way to left to get started again. Checked EM2 bar graph, all in center so not fuel MAP scramble. Thinking SAG (never experienced before so don't know the symptoms)  changed plugs, no joy, tested coils, all ok, checked comp. no needle jump on 2 chambers, dissassem. found broken chunk from Apex seal rotor #2. Done crying now need to fix (short summer). David R. Cook RV6A Rotary  Lansing MI


 

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