My mechanic and I now have all the parts in hand. The Navion is packed on the flat bed trailer and I'm going to haul it out to Nebraska from Culpeper, VA starting Monday morning. I should have some pictures of the destroyed engine when I get out there before it goes back to Continental as the "core" on the new one.
Last edited by FlyingRon; 02-25-2017 at 04:24 AM.
I spent most of this week driving the airframe out to Classic Aero in Nebraska. I got to see what was left of the engine out there.
As we say in NASCAR: "Blowed up."
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As my old friend Dan Ackroyd used to say, "Blowed up real good." (We were in the same university drama club in plays together. Clearly, he did much better than me!)
I need some clarification if you don't mind. Are you doing all this transporting and fixing on your own because you don't have hull insurance?
I've seen 'blowed up' before but that is award winning 'blowed up.'Originally Posted by FlyingRon
That oughta buff right out. Heck, most all the parts are still there in the crankcase, right?
Measure twice, cut once...
scratch head, shrug, shim to fit.
Flying an RV-12. I am building a Fisher Celebrity, slowly.
JB Weld. Just sayin'.
Ron Wanttaja
Yeah, it's an exercise to glue all the pieces back together. The five-pound sack of ground up metal bits is going to be challenging.
start with the edge pieces first
That's what they call a case failure. The case failed to contain all the loose parts. -Cub Builder
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