Posted by Bob Grimstead on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 @ 10:26 AM:
A couple of posts ago — well, in 2011 as it turns out — I was complaining about excessive internal friction in my Aussie RF4D's engine.
https://sbeaver.com/cgi-bin/fournier/cutecast.pl?session=G4pvyCSSPe3vvHrsfZbIERHPgP&forum=13&thread=748
We solved that problem.
But last year (2023) I started noticing Wagon's engine was tightening up when it got hot.
I've recounted this story four times now, so to save me a bit of effort, here's one of the published versions...
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Posted by Bob Grimstead on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 @ 10:30 AM:
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Posted by Bob Grimstead on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 @ 10:35 AM:
This is my mate Tad Dippel's dramatic photo of me scraping across the fence (smokes still going of course).
...and there's a fin-cam clip here... https://youtu.be/paV9pzs5Hkk?si=jc04VUtMJA4NELkd
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Posted by Bob Grimstead on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 @ 10:41 AM:
So here's my engine, superbly rebuilt by VW guru and Tipsy Nipper aerobatics ace, Tony Spooner in just 25 days...
but plus a component that would have caused at the least a substantial power loss, if not complete failure.
It's a cam follower that has cracked, broken up, and started trepanning its way through its pushrod.
[Edit by Bob Grimstead on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 @ 10:45 AM]
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