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Engine basics => Engine set up tips => Topic started by: Harold Brewer on December 27, 2019, 11:27:35 AM
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I crashed my Flitestreak this summer and trashed the engine; broke off the front two motor mounts. I started looking for a replacement case and found one on Ebay. A very easy replacement until I decided to clean off the built up gunk on the head. I put the head into the crock pot for a few hours for cleaning. When I pulled it out, I discovered that the paint had been removed; who knew? The engine still looks pretty good with the missing paint on the head. Just a caution to those might want to clean up their blue LA's using the crock pot method - Don't!!
Best regards,
Harold Brewer
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Or crock-pot the case, so everything matches.
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Those front mounts are not too bad that they could not be used safely, just need some larger, heavier washers. If you know a competent guy with a TIG welder those are easily fixed, so don't throw the case away.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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Easy fix for those pieces missing from the engine lugs. Make aluminum pads like if you were going to put them under the engine, only they go on top of the lugs to keep the bolts in place. 1/16 aluminum should do the trick. Several years ago I had a LA 40 that would get hot on my profile plane and blamed the blue coloring. I crock potted the engine to get rid of the blue and it helped greatly in setting the needle on a profile. D>K
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Doc -
I tried your method to hold the engine in place but found that the setup kept getting loose, no matter how tight I tightened the screws. Upon closer inspection, I found that the unmachined top of the mounting lugs had casting draft; which made the top and bottom of the lugs out of parallel. One lug was really bad and had a lot of draft; to the point where I could not keep the mount screws tight. Only solution was to have someone take a mill pass on the top of the lugs to cure the parallelism issue; much cheaper to get a new case.
Best regards,
Harold Brewer