After a few months, my partner and I finally finished the overhaul we started on an airplane engine. We're training to become AandP mechanics at the helena college of technology and we just finished our course on reciprocating engines.
Anyway, the engine. This beast is a Teledyne Continental O-470-R(type R
). It's a horizontally opposed 6 cylinder air cooled engine from a cessna 182 skylane. Under the supervision of our instructor we performed a major overhaul and replaced a whole bunch of stuff including pistons, seals, bearings, pins, bushings, and a whole bunch more stuff I don't feel like typing. We also gave it a nice Krylon paintjob too, it looks good except for the bright orange which is required to indicate that it has chromed cylinder walls.
Here are some pictures of it, i'll post a couple more when we get it back on the owners aircraft.
Before
After
A nice side view. Funny story about that bottle of simple green on my toolbox, the FAA was inspecting our shop and they wrote us up for having that in the shop, apparently it's not allowed because it can damage aluminum, dang FAA guys will nail you for anything they can so be careful if you ever work in a hanger.
The thing holds 12 quarts of oil
The engine has 470 cubic inches of displacement, but only creates 230 HP with a top speed of 2,600 rpm's. But then again it is pretty light, a lot of it is aluminum. They're not as powerful for their size as our car engines, but they're actually easier to work on usually.
I would've liked to paint TYPE R on it somewhere but the aircraft owner wouldn't like that I don't think. I did however paint a small optimus prime head on the back of the engine somewhere and on the oil cap, hopefully there aint some FAA rule against transformers. We repainted the oil cap though, we decided that one optimus prime was probably enough.
Anyway, we're gonna put this beast on the airplane tuesday we hope and then we'll test it and get it broken in. I won't be able to ride in it yet though, my broken arm is still healing up and I'd rather not risk it. I'll post some pics and a video link of the engine in action. See you guys later, peace.
DAN
Anyway, the engine. This beast is a Teledyne Continental O-470-R(type R
). It's a horizontally opposed 6 cylinder air cooled engine from a cessna 182 skylane. Under the supervision of our instructor we performed a major overhaul and replaced a whole bunch of stuff including pistons, seals, bearings, pins, bushings, and a whole bunch more stuff I don't feel like typing. We also gave it a nice Krylon paintjob too, it looks good except for the bright orange which is required to indicate that it has chromed cylinder walls. Here are some pictures of it, i'll post a couple more when we get it back on the owners aircraft.
Before
After
A nice side view. Funny story about that bottle of simple green on my toolbox, the FAA was inspecting our shop and they wrote us up for having that in the shop, apparently it's not allowed because it can damage aluminum, dang FAA guys will nail you for anything they can so be careful if you ever work in a hanger.
The thing holds 12 quarts of oil
The engine has 470 cubic inches of displacement, but only creates 230 HP with a top speed of 2,600 rpm's. But then again it is pretty light, a lot of it is aluminum. They're not as powerful for their size as our car engines, but they're actually easier to work on usually.
I would've liked to paint TYPE R on it somewhere but the aircraft owner wouldn't like that I don't think. I did however paint a small optimus prime head on the back of the engine somewhere and on the oil cap, hopefully there aint some FAA rule against transformers. We repainted the oil cap though, we decided that one optimus prime was probably enough.
Anyway, we're gonna put this beast on the airplane tuesday we hope and then we'll test it and get it broken in. I won't be able to ride in it yet though, my broken arm is still healing up and I'd rather not risk it. I'll post some pics and a video link of the engine in action. See you guys later, peace.
DAN
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