Don Patrick
Well Known Member
The age old question...should I buy the engine with the prop strike and roll the dice?
I have a line of a O-360-A4A. It has a solid crank and had a strike at idle where it hit a hanger. Looking at $4500, with all accessories. I know full well that the Lycoming AD will have to be done. Everything could be good, or it could not. I have an engine guy (works at a certfied engine shop) who will do it on the side for me.
Potential f many pit falls versus an engine from Aerosport, Aerotec and so on.
For anyone that has gone this route and "rebuilt" an engine that had a prop strike, was it worth it, or would you have done things differently?
Thanks
Don
I have a line of a O-360-A4A. It has a solid crank and had a strike at idle where it hit a hanger. Looking at $4500, with all accessories. I know full well that the Lycoming AD will have to be done. Everything could be good, or it could not. I have an engine guy (works at a certfied engine shop) who will do it on the side for me.
Potential f many pit falls versus an engine from Aerosport, Aerotec and so on.
For anyone that has gone this route and "rebuilt" an engine that had a prop strike, was it worth it, or would you have done things differently?
Thanks
Don