Had one break on the way to Red Oak,Iowa.Cylinder temp went up and was unable to make the gathering but the plane made it home ok.checked the head nuts and sure enough,a stud broke.Only time it has happened.Tommy W.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Mark Langford via KRnet < krnet at list.krnet.org> wrote: > Jeff Lange wrote: > > > > Bummer about the stud. What do you think caused that? It's very rare. > > I think it was just a bad stud. It was new when I put it in, although it > makes me wonder if they all shouldn't come out and some OEM or German studs > should go back in their place (the original engine probably had OEM > studs). This was a brittle fracture, at first glance, and the nuts were > torqued properly at assembly. > > Mark Langford > ML at N56ML.com > http://www.n56ml.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options >
