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Oil Cooler Mount

Oil Cooler Mount

TLDR

  • Reworked the oil cooler mount (left side) for better locking

Details

While preparing the airplane for airworthiness, I noticed the left side lock latch for the oil cooler was a a little loose.

So I took it off and made a piece of aluminum insert on the latch, then put the latch/insert both back to the cowling. The idea is to make the latch slightly thicking to get more tension when the oil cooler locks on it.

After that, I put the cowling back and tried again. The oil cooler locks tighter now. Finally I used a safety pin to lock down the latch so they don’t shake loose during operation.

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