vic syracuse
Well Known Member
Yesterday I performed a pre-buy inspection on an RV10 that had the oil cooler attached to the rear of cylinder 6. I've never seen an RV10 with the cooler installed in that location--- the plans call for it to be installed on the firewall. The current owner originally had a sam james cowl and lots of heating problems, so he replaced the cowl and the plenum, and redid the baffles. He claimed the new set of baffles for the RV10 came with the oil cooler already cut out of the rear baffle.
Given some of the problems we have seen with smaller coolers on the 4-cylinder engines with baffle mounting, I was very surprised, and skeptical, especially since it was only mounted with 4 bolts through the flanges of the cooler. The oil cooler for the 10 is much larger and it seems to me it is a lot more mass to be placing on that rear cylinder.
My advice was that even if it is a new design, we certainly don't have much fleet experience with it and should inspect it regularly. I will be placing a call to van's on Monday, but thought I would ask here in case someone else has seen it. Perhaps someone with a recent baffle kit?
Thanks.
Vic
Given some of the problems we have seen with smaller coolers on the 4-cylinder engines with baffle mounting, I was very surprised, and skeptical, especially since it was only mounted with 4 bolts through the flanges of the cooler. The oil cooler for the 10 is much larger and it seems to me it is a lot more mass to be placing on that rear cylinder.
My advice was that even if it is a new design, we certainly don't have much fleet experience with it and should inspect it regularly. I will be placing a call to van's on Monday, but thought I would ask here in case someone else has seen it. Perhaps someone with a recent baffle kit?
Thanks.
Vic