>4.) One quarter inch clearance is specified in the Ercoupe Maintenance >Manual between the nose cowl and the carburetor induction assembly.
Criminy. I know there is a lot more clearance than this. Come to think of it, this would raise the pressure in the lower half of the cowl. I'll have to go pick up some material and take care of this. >5.) The advertisements for the oil filter modification leave us with a >temptation to believe that the engine will run much cooler with this >particular modification, Not true sez Darryl, if we want to get some >additional cooling we need to either get some air moving around the >filter, or add some sort of mechanical heat sink to provide some more >surface area to haul the heat away. Right. Or at least paint the filters black :-) This thing does have the filter mod, BTW. >It has >been found that the felts on the top and side cowls were missing or >not coming into direct contact with the engine baffles. It is very >important that these felt strips are in their proper place to block I'll look at these. Come to think of it, I don't remember seeing them. Maybe they are missing. ----------------------------------- Steve Dold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Say NO to useless over-quoting -----------------------------------
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