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How to Remove Piston from Cylinder
Is anyone in the chapter a surgeon or does anyone know one personally? I
have a surgeon friend who's an expert in performing abdominal surgery through a tiny incision. He could remove your appendix though your belly button. I think someone like him would find it possible to work through the spark plug holes and squeeze the ring enough to let it slip past the top of the sleeve. "Paul Dow (Remove Caps in mail address)" wrote in message ... A member of our EAA chapter has a cylinder from a Franklin 150 engine (off the engine.) The piston was pushed too far up and the top ring sprung out so it now overlaps the cylinder sleeve which locks the piston in place. Does anyone have a technique to get the piston out? Preferably while doing the least amount of damage. (So no explosives, please!) Thanks, Paul |
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Jon Woellhaf wrote:
Is anyone in the chapter a surgeon or does anyone know one personally? I have a surgeon friend who's an expert in performing abdominal surgery through a tiny incision. He could remove your appendix though your belly button. I think someone like him would find it possible to work through the spark plug holes and squeeze the ring enough to let it slip past the top of the sleeve. I think you are smoking something strong if you think a surgeon is going to use instruments intended for use in the body in a plane - and as a general rule, the equipment/instrument is usually owned by hospitals, not by the docs.. I like the grease gun idea the best.. any 'noncompressible' media will do - water, grease, oil.. just not AIR.. OR.. fill the head with water, valves closed, spark plug hole sealed, and freeze it. Water expands a little as it freezes.. it will overcome any shear resistance the rings have. |
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I didn't say anything about using surgical instruments. I don't smoke, but I
have been painting a lot today. g "Dave S" wrote in message ... Jon Woellhaf wrote: Is anyone in the chapter a surgeon or does anyone know one personally? I have a surgeon friend who's an expert in performing abdominal surgery through a tiny incision. He could remove your appendix though your belly button. I think someone like him would find it possible to work through the spark plug holes and squeeze the ring enough to let it slip past the top of the sleeve. I think you are smoking something strong if you think a surgeon is going to use instruments intended for use in the body in a plane - and as a general rule, the equipment/instrument is usually owned by hospitals, not by the docs.. I like the grease gun idea the best.. any 'noncompressible' media will do - water, grease, oil.. just not AIR.. OR.. fill the head with water, valves closed, spark plug hole sealed, and freeze it. Water expands a little as it freezes.. it will overcome any shear resistance the rings have. |
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Dave S wrote:
Jon Woellhaf wrote: Is anyone in the chapter a surgeon or does anyone know one personally? I have a surgeon friend who's an expert in performing abdominal surgery through a tiny incision. He could remove your appendix though your belly button. I think someone like him would find it possible to work through the spark plug holes and squeeze the ring enough to let it slip past the top of the sleeve. I think you are smoking something strong if you think a surgeon is going to use instruments intended for use in the body in a plane - and as a general rule, the equipment/instrument is usually owned by hospitals, not by the docs.. I like the grease gun idea the best.. any 'noncompressible' media will do - water, grease, oil.. just not AIR.. OR.. fill the head with water, valves closed, spark plug hole sealed, and freeze it. Water expands a little as it freezes.. it will overcome any shear resistance the rings have. The ring may not have expanded all the way round, in that case, you might coax the piston out using a set of long feeler gauges slipped between the piston and wall and twisting the piston gently. I have a set of feeler gauges made for piston work that are a little over twelve inches long. Not surgical tools, but could get the job done. My Franklin Manual(very dated) shows the max wear cold clearance to be .036 at the piston top, so it just might be doable. You could also fabricate a tool from music wire by annealing it, flattening the end very thin with hammer and anvil (small) and then rehardening it. Working through the plug holes with several tools and a lot of patience you might be able to coax it back in. In big transformers we have an effect called magnetostriction (the cause of the hum you hear) I was curious if it would have an effect on a piston ring, so I tried it out with a small piston ring from a weedeater motor in my growler. No effect. I couldn't find my degaussing coil (which might produce a more useful field), so could not try that, but suspect that if it did have an effect it would be to open the gap and actually spread the ring. The ring had a lot more tension than I thought. I grabbed an old automotive ring (no idea what it is off of -- I save everything) and am guessing that it would take north of ten pounds of pressure to compress it, which calls for a pretty strong magnetic field when it is expected to perform over a considerable gap. There are also several acids that will attack steel and not aluminum. I have used that dodge many years ago to remove a busted tap from an aluminum part that I had a lot of time invested in. I used plain battery acid that time, but I think I recall that nitric acid could work better. This would likely attack the valve seats and liner, but would not harm the head or piston. You would want to degrease everything before trying the acid. As far as heating it up and pulling the liner, my (very dated) Franklin manual shows the liner and valve guides are installed with the jug heated to between 625-650 degrees F. They list this same temperature for replacement of the guides, but there is no guidance on removing the liner. It does show the liner is held in place by one or more (depending on the model) locking pins at the base (flange) of the jug. The locking pin is inserted in and held in place by two socket head screws placed in the hole one after another. The cylinder is finish ground and honed after the pin(s)are installed, so once you pull the liner, you are sending it out to be reworked, in which case you might as well let them deal with the whole problem. Charles |
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Charles Vincent wrote:
There are also several acids that will attack steel and not aluminum. I have used that dodge many years ago to remove a busted tap from an aluminum part that I had a lot of time invested in. I used plain battery acid that time, but I think I recall that nitric acid could work better. This would likely attack the valve seats and liner, but would not harm the head or piston. You would want to degrease everything before trying the acid. On reflection, forget I said that. To much risk that the acid would have some long term effect and I simply don't know enough about it to recommend it for an aircraft part. Charles |
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Hi Paul,
do you know this document, mainly the drawing around page 2-40 or at 2-35? http://www.franklin.ioi.pl/dokumenty...ts_Catalog.pdf http://www.franklin.ioi.pl/dokumenty/IPC_4A235_B4.pdf It seems the cylinder liner can be pulled if the lock pin is removed. Much luck Walter |
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Gig 601Xl Builder wrote:
Paul Dow (Remove Caps in mail address) wrote: (So no explosives, please!) Thanks, Paul How do expect any help if you tie our hands? "There are very few of man's problems that can't be solved by the proper application of the appropriate explosives." - Ragnar "oops" Benson Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired |
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"Dan" wrote in message ... "There are very few of man's problems that can't be solved by the proper application of the appropriate explosives." - Ragnar "oops" Benson "Blo-Jell ! The plastic explosive you use at home. Great for those pesky stuck window frames; better than a string and a doorknob for removing Junior's loose tooth" (As remembered from the Prairie Home Companion show) Vaughn |
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Vaughn Simon wrote:
"Dan" wrote in message ... "There are very few of man's problems that can't be solved by the proper application of the appropriate explosives." - Ragnar "oops" Benson "Blo-Jell ! The plastic explosive you use at home. Great for those pesky stuck window frames; better than a string and a doorknob for removing Junior's loose tooth" (As remembered from the Prairie Home Companion show) Vaughn I prefer hand grenades. They can be used for fishing, removing walls from fingerprints, getting your neighbour to stop mowing the lawn too early..etc. Hand grenades are also very effective for painting rooms. One opens a can of paint, places it on the floor in the geometric centre of the room, pulls the pin from the grenade, drops it into the, vacates the room, and voi ci, a painted room. Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired |
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Hello Walter,
Thank you for that link. I wasn't aware that it is on the web. My friend didn't have the parts manual. He does have the 6 cylinder model, so that information should be very useful to us. Also, it looks like your posting did appear in the newsgroup. I think some newsgroup servers don't update very quickly. It looks like the messages on the newsgroup have migrated to a discussion about explosives now :-) Paul Walter Kronester wrote: Hi Paul, do you know this document, mainly the drawing around page 2-40 or at 2-35? http://www.franklin.ioi.pl/dokumenty...ts_Catalog.pdf http://www.franklin.ioi.pl/dokumenty/IPC_4A235_B4.pdf It seems the cylinder liner can be pulled if the lock pin is removed. Much luck Walter |
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