C-97 Progress Update

Airlift48 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 744

When I get a chance to look through the maintenance manual, I will get the numbers..

engguy · **Joined:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:45 am **Posts:** 442

Sounds good. When was the last time those engines ran? I hope you guys get some good video's of the big start up day.

Airlift48 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 744

A few years ago. We turn them over regularly, however. I imagine we'll be running them a bit this spring.

Airlift48 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 744

As of Monday, June 29, 2015...we have run ALL 4 R-4360s on the "Angel". Things are looking up!

TheBigBadGman · **Joined:** Sun May 27, 2012 1:14 am **Posts:** 111

Wonderful news!

Dan K · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2015 9:53 am

Airlift48 wrote:

As of Monday, June 29, 2015...we have run ALL 4 R-4360s on the "Angel". Things are looking up!

Great news, Kevin...posting video anywhere?

maxum96 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:13 pm

Dan K wrote:

Airlift48 wrote:

As of Monday, June 29, 2015...we have run ALL 4 R-4360s on the "Angel". Things are looking up!

Great news, Kevin...posting video anywhere?

Ditto. But here's a video I found from December 2014 when they fired up two of the engines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2H6lA7iYHM

maxum96 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:13 pm

Double post

Airlift48 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 744

Actually, we ran 3 of them in December. We just ran #3 last week. We'll be running them again this week sometime.

I posted the video to the WIX Facebook group.

KK

Airlift48 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 744

Last week, we ran all four engines for a few hours until we ran out of fuel.

We will be having the airplane weighed soon.

They all ran fine, but #3 never really cleared of smoke. There are a few oil leaks to take care of on it, and of course, since it hadnt been run in 20 years or so, we'll have to do another compression test on it to see what's going on.

We suspect a few things, a sticky primer solenoid, resulting in a rich mixture, a stuck ring possibly, just a rich mixture in general, and of course, oil leaks. We already pulled all the screens and they are clean and metal free.

We will sort out the issues, but overall, the engines seem like they're in good shape.

Here's a vide shot of the first 20 minute run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCX_-ZuP9Es

sandiego89 · **Joined:** Mon May 21, 2012 12:28 pm **Posts:** 1198

Nice video, thanks for posting- to paraphrase: "I love the smell of 4360's in the morning....smells like victory...."

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