Colorguns
PATRON
Bloomfield NY
When I was traveling back from Maine this weekend I noticed the engine really shook a lot more than normal on shut down on the last 2 times with the last one at the house.
So I had to add a quart of oil; and really started to look things close under the hood, thought I would start looking at the motor mount for some reason as this seemed like the right thing to do. THEN I noticed that the engine bolt on the motor mount at the #3 cylinder, so upper right corner was backed out and the head was showing about 1/2". HOLY SH*T I said!! Took the top cowl off and found the bolts nut was missing and was backed out of the engine and held in place by the rubbers. Then digging deeper I found the nut laying under the cylinder. Bolt had all of its threads and not broken, nut that is a lock nut was fine and would have needed a wrench to tighten it back into place. Replaced the bolt and nut and retorqued everything back up including the other 3 bolts that needed just a little to torque to specs. This was after an 100hr/annual in November, after 140 hours with a previous annual in June, it had on the engine about 50 hours since the annual in November.
So if you think something is not normal check to see what it might be. I did and am here to talk about it.
Doug
So I had to add a quart of oil; and really started to look things close under the hood, thought I would start looking at the motor mount for some reason as this seemed like the right thing to do. THEN I noticed that the engine bolt on the motor mount at the #3 cylinder, so upper right corner was backed out and the head was showing about 1/2". HOLY SH*T I said!! Took the top cowl off and found the bolts nut was missing and was backed out of the engine and held in place by the rubbers. Then digging deeper I found the nut laying under the cylinder. Bolt had all of its threads and not broken, nut that is a lock nut was fine and would have needed a wrench to tighten it back into place. Replaced the bolt and nut and retorqued everything back up including the other 3 bolts that needed just a little to torque to specs. This was after an 100hr/annual in November, after 140 hours with a previous annual in June, it had on the engine about 50 hours since the annual in November.
So if you think something is not normal check to see what it might be. I did and am here to talk about it.
Doug