| Finished most of the Oil system install today. I've seen reports of the Scat flange's that are spot welded/soldered to the oil cooler |
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| bracket breaking, and so I made some simple reinforcing clips from .032" and pop riveted them to the scat flange, It may not |
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| keep the flange from cracking, but should keep it from comming off and creating a major inflight heat problem. Mounted the |
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| Breather tube per plans. ( I forgot to drill a hole in the Faux firewall for the upper adel clamp attachment, so had to reverse frill it |
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| from inside w/ #40 drill and then enlarge on the faux firewall to make room for and AN3-10 bolt. Re the oil cooler, I debated |
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| installing it, as I have heard that there are more efficient coolers, and living in AZ I will probably need all of the cooling I can get, |
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| However, The options are VERY expensive and I need to do some more research, Additionally cooling is complex and involves |
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| a lot of factors that will be examined cloosely diring Phase 1. ..... so I installed the Van's cooler ----- for now. I'm short an DG -12 |
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| clamp, which i'll pick up tomorrow am, and anchor the one line to the upper engine mount. |
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