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At 06:19 AM 12/8/00 -0800, you wrote:
>At 06:00 AM 12/8/00 -0800, david abrams wrote:
>>The seal is one piece. You pull the prop, heat the seal in boiling
>>water to make it elastic and stretch it over the prop flange. I have not
>>done it personally but my mechanic has several time while trying to stop
>>a front oil leak.
>
>Seems a lot of people have leaky front seals, and a lot of people have
>tried a couple time to fix it and given up. Looking at the planes at the
>EOC convention, about 50 percent or more of the planes seemed to
>be in front seal leak mode, some of them pretty substantial.
"If a small Contenintal Engine isn't leaking oil, it is because it
doesn't have any in it."
In reality, air cooled engines are built to looser tolerances all around,
which can account for alot of the leaks. And if you don't remove parts
that are not leaking, you can't induce a leak.
Percy
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