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BobbyPaulk(at)comcast.net
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 Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 6:21 pm Post subject: Engine Ground |
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I happened to be helping repair a Cessna 170-B and noticed the engine ground was routed only about 4" aft of the rubber mounts and attached to a tab on the motor mount in lieu of the firewall. This saved a few feet of heavy wire and a few ounces.
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ceengland7(at)gmail.com
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 7:35 pm Post subject: Engine Ground |
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On 1/21/2016 8:09 PM, BobbyPaulk(at)comcast.net (BobbyPaulk(at)comcast.net) wrote:
| Quote: | I happened to be helping repair a Cessna 170-B and noticed the engine ground was routed only about 4" aft of the rubber mounts and attached to a tab on the motor mount in lieu of the firewall. This saved a few feet of heavy wire and a few ounces.
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And added several tenths of an ohm to the resistance of the starting circuit.
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nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelect
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| Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 7:32 am Post subject: Engine Ground |
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At 08:09 PM 1/21/2016, you wrote:
| Quote: | | I happened to be helping repair a Cessna 170-B and noticed the engine ground was routed only about 4" aft of the rubber mounts and attached to a tab on the motor mount in lieu of the firewall. This saved a few feet of heavy wire and a few ounces. |
That was a common practice . . . waaayyyy back
when . . .
Bob . . .
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Kellym
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| Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 11:49 am Post subject: Engine Ground |
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Perhaps my memory is fading from the C-170B that I owned for 23 years
and sold 18 yrs ago, but I recall the engine ground going to the
firewall. The path between the battery, master and starter relays is so
short on that plane that it won't matter much. The battery was on the
right side of firewall with one or both relays on the battery box. The
starter is less than 12" away, one of the old pull start models at the
top center of the engine accessory case. The run to the panel buss is
equally short.
On 1/22/2016 8:27 AM, Robert L. Nuckolls, III wrote:
| Quote: | At 08:09 PM 1/21/2016, you wrote:
> I happened to be helping repair a Cessna 170-B and noticed the engine
> ground was routed only about 4" aft of the rubber mounts and attached
> to a tab on the motor mount in lieu of the firewall. This saved a few
> feet of heavy wire and a few ounces.
That was a common practice . . . waaayyyy back
when . . .
Bob . . .
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