Desert Rat
Well Known Member
Hey all,
I've got a forward governor and RV14 baffles on my RV7. The 14 baffles come precut and the semicircular cutout that goes around the prop governor was presumably cut with a Hartzell governor in mind.
The Jihostroj governor is quite a bit slimmer so the gap is about .75". I can forsee problems here with baffle rubbers flopping the wrong way or some other potential issues.
I think my fix for that will be to rivet or screw on an aluminum semi-circle to make that gap smaller.
I was playing around looking at this with a cardboard mockup and it occurred to me that if I'm building this filler piece anyway, what would be wrong with just cutting it pretty tight to the governor, leaving say maybe a 3/16" gap and just sealing up the gap with rtv, thus completely eliminating the rubber baffle material from the lower half of the governor area?
Other than maybe having to drill out a few pop rivets if I need to take something back apart does anybody see a downside to doing it this way?
Picture 1 below is the gap I'm dealing with. Picture 2 is what I'm thinking as depicted in CAD. (cardboard aided design)
I've got a forward governor and RV14 baffles on my RV7. The 14 baffles come precut and the semicircular cutout that goes around the prop governor was presumably cut with a Hartzell governor in mind.
The Jihostroj governor is quite a bit slimmer so the gap is about .75". I can forsee problems here with baffle rubbers flopping the wrong way or some other potential issues.
I think my fix for that will be to rivet or screw on an aluminum semi-circle to make that gap smaller.
I was playing around looking at this with a cardboard mockup and it occurred to me that if I'm building this filler piece anyway, what would be wrong with just cutting it pretty tight to the governor, leaving say maybe a 3/16" gap and just sealing up the gap with rtv, thus completely eliminating the rubber baffle material from the lower half of the governor area?
Other than maybe having to drill out a few pop rivets if I need to take something back apart does anybody see a downside to doing it this way?
Picture 1 below is the gap I'm dealing with. Picture 2 is what I'm thinking as depicted in CAD. (cardboard aided design)