Last fall my hanger was broke into and my car a Dodge Viper as stolen, tools stolen, drain sumps removed from the plane and fuel put into the Viper. End cost so far is north of $70,000
Any way this has all been a big headache as you can well imagine with 3 different insurance claims. The car was the main target. They were into the fuel tanks on the wings to fuel the empty tank on the car. I have borescoped and flushed them and I'm satisfied they are ok.
The engine is a different deal. They had been into the engine compartment (it was open). It appeared something has been added to the oil due to the 2 slightly different colors on the dip stick.
I've drained the oil and sent sample away to be tested but nothing could be found at the lab. I've borescoped what I could on the bottom end as well as put a magnet in and nothing was found out of the ordinary.
I flushed the engine with fuel and the last little bit of flush brought out some soft particles that I can't identify. (might even be the normal sludge that's built up on an engine with 700hrs) The engine has not been run since this incident so I'm not concerned about damage.
Anyway I'm not going to rest easy until I pull the oil sump and give it a proper cleaning and look see. It's an O360 in a RV4.
So my question is how many hours for this job? Seems straight forward enough in pulling the pan off. I'm assuming with no problems it's probably a 6 or 8 hr job to remove the exhaust, intake, carb etc and get the pan out of there and back on?
Anything I'm missing? Any special unforeseen Lycoming tools needed? Probably need to order new exhaust nuts, exhaust gaskets, intake tubes, oil pan gasket, carb gasket, mouse's milk. Anything else Im missing on this? The engine was built in the late 90's so the only thing that comes to mind is probably to check the oil pump and AD's at this point. Anything I'm missing?
Thanks
Tim
All of this happened at an airport in the South Okanogan here in Canada.
Any way this has all been a big headache as you can well imagine with 3 different insurance claims. The car was the main target. They were into the fuel tanks on the wings to fuel the empty tank on the car. I have borescoped and flushed them and I'm satisfied they are ok.
The engine is a different deal. They had been into the engine compartment (it was open). It appeared something has been added to the oil due to the 2 slightly different colors on the dip stick.
I've drained the oil and sent sample away to be tested but nothing could be found at the lab. I've borescoped what I could on the bottom end as well as put a magnet in and nothing was found out of the ordinary.
I flushed the engine with fuel and the last little bit of flush brought out some soft particles that I can't identify. (might even be the normal sludge that's built up on an engine with 700hrs) The engine has not been run since this incident so I'm not concerned about damage.
Anyway I'm not going to rest easy until I pull the oil sump and give it a proper cleaning and look see. It's an O360 in a RV4.
So my question is how many hours for this job? Seems straight forward enough in pulling the pan off. I'm assuming with no problems it's probably a 6 or 8 hr job to remove the exhaust, intake, carb etc and get the pan out of there and back on?
Anything I'm missing? Any special unforeseen Lycoming tools needed? Probably need to order new exhaust nuts, exhaust gaskets, intake tubes, oil pan gasket, carb gasket, mouse's milk. Anything else Im missing on this? The engine was built in the late 90's so the only thing that comes to mind is probably to check the oil pump and AD's at this point. Anything I'm missing?
Thanks
Tim
All of this happened at an airport in the South Okanogan here in Canada.
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