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![]() "Denny" wrote in message ... Color me really annoyed... It took me a day to cool down enough to be lucid... The new Lycoming cylinder kits have turned out to contain the wrong cylinders...%^$#*&! When I ordered them I called Lycoming and gave the engine serial number to the voice on the phone who cross checked it and he told me what the correct cylinders/parts numbers were... Then when I called AERO they agreed with Lycoming... Never the less, The Kid took one look at the first new cylinder and said, "nope, won't work." and simply walked away and went back to rebuilding a customers magneto... crusty, just like his dad, and I hate it when he is right like that I spent a large chunk of Wednesday afternoon on the phone with the factory/supplier to solve this... and I even found that one of the cylinder kits even has the wrong 'paperwork' inserted in the box i.e. the 8130 certifies this to be different cylinder than it actually is The nice lady on the phone took all of 3 seconds after I gave her the engine serial number to agree that the kit I have will not work why wasn't she the one who answered the phone the first time? sheeesh Long story short: The supplier is going to ship me 4 new cylinder kits as soon as Chicago UPS can run their trucks through the snow - so it will be at least another week before we have cylinders... And they are going to charge my card for the cylinder kits and shipping sigh... And then they are supposed to - next week - come up with a way to get the original 4 cylinder kits returned and then supposedly credit my card sigh... The other issue is that we now can't get Lycoming cylinders for this engine, so we had a choice between Superior and ECI... The Kid was campaigning for ECI Nickel cylinders, but they only have 3 on hand.. In the end, we settled for 4 ECI Steel cylinder kits... Which raised another complication, the lycoming kits have a wrist pin but no rocker arm pins, so we had sent the rocker pins out for rebuild along with the rocker arms... The ECI kits come with rocker arm pins and no wrist pins so I had to order new wrist pins and I will be left with a set of freshly rebuilt rocker arm pins I have no need for... (oh hell, it's only pieces of paper with green ink on them) For those who are still awake at this point and are wondering - I recycle rocker arm pins because they never break that I know of but I always install new wrist pins - because they do break... denny You might check with RAM Aircraft, 254-752-8381 ask for parts sales, they carry a lot of new ECI cylinders for Lycoming. I would stick with the nickel if I had the choice. Allen |
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