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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Getting back too it.

The guys were gone last week on a rapid response trip.  They helped on an inspection for Samaritans Purse's Grand Caravan that was doing some relief work.  But they are back now and we will finish these engines.

 Ryan's IO-540 run had a complication that kept it from running.  I call it a complication and not a problem because problem has a negative connotation. I consider complications like the final test in a class your taking.  You have to take all the knowledge you have gathered over the past few months and bring it to bare on an unknown issue.  Over the day or two it took us in trouble shooting to figure out what happened we got to review the ignition system, magneto to engine timing, magneto internal timing and then the engine internal timing.  Turns out that the crankshaft gear had two timing marks one right one wrong,  why two I don't know but the obvious mark was the wrong one.  After adjusting the timing it fired up and ran great. 
 An additional lesson that was learned was that you can follow the book and do it "right" and it can still not work.  That is where being a mechanic really starts, most people can follow directions, most people cannot figure out what to do when it still doesn't work.
This is Ryan's engine finished, paperwork signed and crated for it's return trip to Suriname. 


 As soon as Ryan's engine was lifted off, Stephen's engine was set in it's place and the hooking up began.  We got it ready to run before he left on his trip but we hope to run tomorrow with or without complications...
                                                         
 And lastly we have our next engine, a turbo normalized IO-540 for Arctic Barnabas, a mission based in Alaska.  Check them out a get a feel for what they do.

Thanks for your prayers,  Josh

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