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PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2015 2:54 pm 
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Hi,

I’m looking for someone that knows his or her way around the Ranger engines type: 6-410B-2A 165HP 6 cylinder line engines.
We operate an Fairchild 24R9 with an 6-410B-2A engine.
As far as I can remember, we had troubles with engine performance, so after a while, they called me to take a closer look in relation with the poor engine performance.
I quickly find out that the 6-410B-2A data plate on the engine, had different valve opening and closing settings that did not make any sense if I took a good look in the overhaul books I have.

I than found out that I have an camshaft installed that cooperated with the data in the overhaul manual. Basically, the 6-410B-2 & -3 engines have a valve opening cycle bigger that previous types.
So my question here is where is the missing link regarding my data plate on the engine telling me a whole other story?
Can someone share some light on this?

My data plate on the engine tells me:
Inlet opens 3deg. Early / closes 51deg. Late
Exhaust opens 55deg. Early / closes 20deg. Late
Intake remains open: 234 deg.
Exhaust remains open: 255 deg.



The overhaul manual tells me:
Inlet opens 15deg. Before TDC / closes 65deg. After BDC
Exhaust opens 70deg. Before BDC / closes 30deg. After BDC
Intake remains open: 260 deg.
Exhaust remains open: 280 deg.


Eventually I developed tooling to adjust the camshaft on the Ranger engine. With laser guiding I was able to adjust it to within halve of a degree i.a.w. information in the overhaul manual.
But poor engine performance still remains.

Any idea’s or shared experiences?



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The "Early Birds" Fairchild was built in 1939 with serial number R9-418. In the same year it was transported to Europe on SS. "Mauritania" (cargo papers were still available in Switzerland where '418' was registered as HB-EIM). First military registered 43-14454 it later was in service with the RAF as FS537. For a long time this Fairchild flew a regular mail-service in Switzerland. Since the early eighties of the last century it is part of the EB-collection. After a most meticulous restoration it is now airworthy and registered as "aircraft of historic significance" on the Dutch civil register as PH-FAI.

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