Data for the O-360: 43″ × 43″ and 28" high including the pallet’s wood skids.
Does anyone have experience of shipping an O-320-D3G piper warrior 4 cylinder engine? or similar,
Am wondering what should be the dimensions of the crate i need to get made.
Ground run done and ready to fly back home on the first near-CAVOK day. Not the smallest oil leak anywhere, which is really unusual. The first flight will be 2hrs, with a specific programme of power settings.
Job progressing…
Taking longer than expected but it is not being worked on full-time. I don’t mind because I was ill for a long time with some crap acquired on Easyjet 
But also we are doing the mother of all Annuals, as noted on other threads. 100% landing gear lube, etc. It’s also an opportunity to get everything perfect e.g. replacing the sleeving on this sensor.
The Skytec starter (149NL/EC) is here @denopa
The /EC version is the slow running one. They had reliability issues with the non-EC version (fast running) with the stator slipping round and breaking the connections inside… mine was OK though and eventually failed to engage at the front.
Thanks!
It’s a Skytec high speed starter. It became intermittent (the mechanical engagement mechanism) so I installed a replacement, which turned out to run at 50% of the speed! More info at the bottom here. So I took advantage of this big box going to the USA to send it there for a possible overhaul (definitely not economic from Europe) but at some $400 it turned out to be uneconomic too, so it got dumped. The slower model was only a year old so is going to be fitted to the new engine. I don’t really need a spare starter motor (famous last words).
Peter,
on your older post with the picture of your accessories, what is the part on the left please? I’m afraid I don’t recognise that one.
The engine is back from the USA
DHL cost more than quoted some months ago (£800 each way). It was £1100 and £1000 there and back. Still worth it; 5 days to get there (stuck in Customs 2x) and 3 days to come back. Air freight is about 75% of that cost and IME much more fraught.
I am sure the new one will perform exactly the same as the old one, plus or minus 1kt
I could obviously have gone with the old one for longer but eventually it would need doing, and here I have a chance to shortcut the time. Also IO540-C4D5D exchange engines are practically nonexistent.
