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At 04:09 PM 9/17/02 -0500, John wrote:
>By the way, My baffles are all aluminum. I don't have the rubber baffle
>tape anywhere on the baffles. The front right baffle that the top air
flow
>hole in the nosebowl feeds has cracked at the support, allowing it to
fall
>about 3/4 of an inch. What I mean is the top air flows over the top 3/4
of
>the cylinder instead of only 1/2 of the cylinder. When it shifted down,
the
>baffle was chaffing my right cowl cover so I used a pair of plyers to
bend
>down about 1/16th of an inch so that it would not rub the cowl cover.
Could
>this small of a change be the cause of the problem?? The A&P did not feel
>that it was, but he is not an Ercoupe expert. Are the baffles that
sensitive?
John, John. I'm gonna be the first to tell ya. Fix Dem Baffles! Mine
had a
half an inch gap around `em. I put new seals on `em, and my temp's been
just peachy. Take the cowl off, patch the metal parts so they can last
another fifty years, and put seal stuff around `em all the way - sides,
back
and front. Be sure the seal material curls around towards the INSIDE of
the top plenum.
Then let us know.
Percy G. Wood
Region 3 Director,
Ercoupe Owners Club
The foregoing is to impress your A&P that it does make a
difference.
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