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mmul6471(at)bigpond.net.a
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 Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:44 pm Post subject: removing the oil filler tube |
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Howdy all. I have a Lycoming O-320 E3D engine that I am installing in an
RV9A. I am trying to remove the baffles. There is one screw that sits right
behind the oil filler tube. To get to this screw I am going to have to take
off the oil filler tube, which on this engine is plastic. I presume that
this is a normal right hand thread and not left hand. I cannot get a
spanner or wrench onto the bottom of the tube, but there is a "nut" about
half up the tube. All my efforts so far have only succeeded in deforming the
tube and the wrench slipping off. I am too scared of cracking this tube to
grip it with vice grips, does anyone have a solution to this problem??
Thanks,
Mick
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jrccea(at)bellsouth.net
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:35 am Post subject: removing the oil filler tube |
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Can you not reach the screw behind the filler tube with an offset
screwdriver?
JimC
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apilot2(at)gmail.com
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:56 am Post subject: removing the oil filler tube |
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I'll assume you removed the safety wire at the base of the filler tube that is supposed to keep it from coming off?? Yes, is is normal right hand threads and usually comes loose just from folks tightening dipstick too tight and then wrenching to remove dipstick.
On 9/15/07, Mick Muller <mmul6471(at)bigpond.net.au (mmul6471(at)bigpond.net.au)> wrote:[quote] --> Engines-List message posted by: "Mick Muller" <mmul6471(at)bigpond.net.au (mmul6471(at)bigpond.net.au)>
Howdy all. I have a Lycoming O-320 E3D engine that I am installing in an
RV9A. I am trying to remove the baffles. There is one screw that sits right
behind the oil filler tube. To get to this screw I am going to have to take
off the oil filler tube, which on this engine is plastic. I presume that
this is a normal right hand thread and not left hand. I cannot get a
spanner or wrench onto the bottom of the tube, but there is a "nut" about
half up the tube. All my efforts so far have only succeeded in deforming the
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mullokintyre
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:08 am Post subject: Re: removing the oil filler tube |
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| jrccea(at)bellsouth.net wrote: | Can you not reach the screw behind the filler tube with an offset
screwdriver?
JimC |
Unless its a different kind of screwdriver, no. the offset would have to be about 40 degrees, which makes it difficult to turn. I only have about an inch and a quarter between the head of the screw and the filler pipe., and its recessed. If I can't get the filler pipe off, I am looking for a small universal joint that will take a flat head bit.
Mick
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jrccea(at)bellsouth.net
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:49 am Post subject: removing the oil filler tube |
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For that sort of thing, I generally use a hex-head screwdriver tip that is
about 3/4 inch long (tip from a multi-tip screwdriver), and a 1/4 inch
boxend wrench to turn it. You might have to bend the handle of the wrench a
little.
JimC
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:06 am Post subject: removing the oil filler tube |
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I don't suppose some where along the line some doofus put Locktite on the
threads of the filler tube because it was a difficult spot to lockwire???
Noel
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