sonerainut
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Hello All,
Greetings from Ohio!
I have been working on my yearly condition inspection (yeah, I'm a little late) and have noticed I can grab the propeller and move the entire crankshaft fore and aft a decent amount, probably about 0.025".
I have a Great Plains Type I 2180 with a force one prop flange.
The flange is not loose in any way, I believe the flywheel end play has loosened up since the engine was originally built. I remember when building the engine I had some difficulty setting up the ).004" end play as specified in the Great Plains manual and may have set thing up too loose and now that I have some time on the engine (about 70 hrs TT) things may have loosened up more.
Should I be concerned? I plan on calling Steve at Great Plains, but he usually vacations prior to Oshkosh so I thought I would sent this out to see if anyone else has run into this.
Thanks for any input.
Lee
Greetings from Ohio!
I have been working on my yearly condition inspection (yeah, I'm a little late) and have noticed I can grab the propeller and move the entire crankshaft fore and aft a decent amount, probably about 0.025".
I have a Great Plains Type I 2180 with a force one prop flange.
The flange is not loose in any way, I believe the flywheel end play has loosened up since the engine was originally built. I remember when building the engine I had some difficulty setting up the ).004" end play as specified in the Great Plains manual and may have set thing up too loose and now that I have some time on the engine (about 70 hrs TT) things may have loosened up more.
Should I be concerned? I plan on calling Steve at Great Plains, but he usually vacations prior to Oshkosh so I thought I would sent this out to see if anyone else has run into this.
Thanks for any input.
Lee
