{"id":514,"date":"2013-01-08T16:57:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-12T16:04:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:04:39","slug":"installed-new-pushrod-shroud-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/01\/08\/installed-new-pushrod-shroud-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Installed New Pushrod Shroud Retainers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year or two ago, I became aware of an issue with the stock ECI pushrod shroud retainers. \u00a0These were made of\u00a0heat treated carbon steel, and suffered from hydrogen embrittlement due to a manufacturing issue. \u00a0There\u00a0have been a few instances of these breaking in service which causes the pushrod shroud to push out from the crankcase leading to a loss of engine oil.<\/p>\n<p>I had been planning on replacing these with Lycoming parts before my first flight, but ECI recently issued\u00a0Service Bulletin 12-1 acknowledging the issue and offering free replacement parts. \u00a0I got the kit in the mail today and replaced all of the retainers. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the old one that I pulled out of the engine. \u00a0These are 0.032&#8243; thick.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20130108\/IMG_0713.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0713.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of the new ones installed. \u00a0These are 0.040&#8243; thick stainless that is not susceptible to hydrogen embrittlement. \u00a0The nuts are torqued to 96 in-lbs and then the safety clips are bent up to prevent the nut from turning.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20130108\/IMG_0715.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0715.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year or two ago, I became aware of an issue with the stock ECI pushrod shroud retainers. \u00a0These were made of\u00a0heat treated carbon steel, and suffered from hydrogen embrittlement due to a manufacturing issue. \u00a0There\u00a0have been a few instances of these breaking in service which causes the pushrod shroud to push out from the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/01\/08\/installed-new-pushrod-shroud-r\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewall-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}