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04-12-2017, 08:11 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Chesterfield, Missouri
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Installing aft crank shaft plug
Anyone here who has successfully installed the aft crank shaft plug when going to CS prop?
How about a run down on how you did it and the tool used to spread the plug.
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04-12-2017, 08:21 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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David, I don't have a response to your inquiry. But I have an RV8 io 360 with a Catto prop and I look forward to a performance comparison between your before and after. I hope you will do one.
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04-12-2017, 09:36 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2011
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Tool
See this thread: VAF Thread
Thought I had a picture but can not find it now. The one I made based on the above dimensions worked fine. Made it from wood and the plug drove home with little issue.
Link to some pictures I do have: Prop Swap
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04-12-2017, 10:39 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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I used a wooden dowel and cut it so that it would fit around the oil tubes. Used that to get the plug started and mostly seated.
Just tapped it home with a long brass drift pin.
Worked great!
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04-12-2017, 05:20 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Thanks you-all for the info, sounds like is no big deal.
I called Rhonda at BPE this morning, she is sending a plug gratis...thank you young lady, you are the best. 
I am very inclined to go forward with this upgrade when all the hoops with FAA medical are hopped through. Big challenge will be thorough eye test of the 25th.
Meanwhile, anyone here a fan of Emmylou Harris? She will be at Ryman Hall in Nashville on May 2. I got one of last tickets in 4th row from stage.
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04-13-2017, 05:38 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Brass or Alumimum
David we have used soft metal driffs to set the plugs as well works fine. They are much like an old expanding freeze plug in an automotive engine block, not hard to set, just a good hard whack with a two pound hammer.
Hope this helps, yours, R.E.A. III #80888
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04-13-2017, 05:45 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: melbourne australia
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Crank plug
David I had to trim my plug to get it past the oil tube ,getting the pieced old plug out was the hard bit. Enjoy your c/s ,I am.
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04-13-2017, 09:35 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by trifield
David I had to trim my plug to get it past the oil tube ,getting the pieced old plug out was the hard bit. Enjoy your c/s ,I am.
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Allen Barrett called about installing that plug when assembling the engine. We decided it made no sense to install it and punch a hole in it, so it was not installed.
I imagined getting one out could be a challenge.
Thanks to all for info.
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