Pilot had his airplanengine rebuilt. Shipped back and installed. Why ZERO oil pressure?

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Believe thathis was an engine install party with other aircraft owners helping and connecting the many sensors, etc.
Easy in all thexcitemento think thathe zeroil pressure was because a cable was loose.

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Nope. Building an airplane is not a ‘bring out the beer, have some fun’ thing like some car show restoration. Overlooking basics should not have been ‘easy’.

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I asked if beer were likely involved.
Twas an omission by a meticulous but human aircraft owner.
Luckily, due to my OCD, I would have checked and $aved $65k.

Years ago I was assisting in rebuilding a friend’s army personnel carrier engine.
Before he started it I.nsisted on checking the oil.
Later discovered that he had installed thew head gasket reversed? and an oil channel was blocked by thead gasket.

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Now it makes some sense. Another example of a group-think failure. A single experienced mechanic working alone wouldn’t be likely to make this mistake. Too many cooks spoil the soup.

Car owners can’t win for losing! 
 lol 
 whoever designs those plastic air filter box covers seems like they want it to be so difficult to remove that you break something, or at least pinch your fingers trying :wink: While I’ve never broken anything so far, I’ve never been able to replace the air filter on my Corolla without pinching my fingers and saying a lot of highly descriptive phrases 
 If I want to avoid the finger-pinching problem, I have to remove the entire air-duct assembly from the box’s top to the throttle body first.

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I am fairly certain the people who write into this column do not do so to be insulted with demeaning name calling that is neither constructive nor beneficial to the overall purpose of this forum.

(BTW, spelling something wrong to avoid filters does not make it any more acceptable.)

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@harrisonpd_160690 This is a Forum not a column. I don’t see anything wrong with what Mr. Texas posted . You need to relax.

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I even swap out the supplied oil filter before starting the engine. Just in case some sort of damage happened during the shipping process. Don’t need a pin hole in the filter ruining an engine.

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Not trying to avoid filters, just a reference to Bugs.

My point, as I’ve made several times, is that airplane maintenance and construction is held to standards far above that for car maintenance, and that the airplane’s owner failed in a step expected of trainee pilots. If I had done this, I’d be thinking “What an IDIOT!” to myself.

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I chuckled at your original comment, getting the Bugs reference. Then, in looking for this picture just now, I googled “What a maroon” and learned something 


https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maroon
I had no idea the phrase was related to slavery.

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Well, one meaning of the word is, I didn’t see where the phrase (which to me is a silly play on words) is.

If you’re interested, the books “1491” and “1493” (about the New World before Colombus and the impact his voyages had on the world, both old and new) include descriptions of Maroon settlements, and their relationship to the Native Americans at the time. Highly recommended.

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I would be very surprised at anything being shipped with oil. Usually there will be a big warning tag to add oil though. If you have ever seen how packages are processed or the results, you wouldn’t want oil in an engine. We got one carton of cans from ups that was totally destroyed. Looked like it had been run over but still delivered. Maybe a crate engine would be different and handled by a fork lift. Still can’t believe there would be a test run without checking oil.

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Catching up - Car Talk is a column in my newspaper. I also referred to this forum as such.

I’ll stand by my original comment - texases reference to the OP as being a moroon i.e. idiot. based on the context of the useage, is unnecessarily insulting to the OP.

I am relaxed.

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I have no issue with this. Self deprecation is one thing. Using the same language to insult someone else is another.

That’s All Folks

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Sometimes if it looks like a
, swims like a 
, and quacks like a
, then it probably is a duck
Sometimes you just have to call it like it is


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Read the thread again . The OP is not the person who owned the aircraft .

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I have a flaky friend who is not handy at all. You can tell him 100 times “Lefty, loosey, righty, tighty” and he still forgets which way to turn a screw.

Years ago he bought the cheapest push mower from HD. Included in the box is a pint of oil that you pour in before you use it. So he unfolds the handle and puts gas in the tank. He starts the mower and proceeds to mow his lawn. After a minute it starts screeching and then stops. He can’t pull the starter because the motor is now locked up.

He comes running to me wondering whats wrong. The first thing I do is check the oil: “Jay, there’s no oil in the crankcase!” That’s when he remembers the pint of oil he took out of the box and immediately put down somewhere. Now my friend is also slimey, he pours the oil in the crankcase and returns the mower to HD. “The mower won’t start”. He gets his money back.

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Nope, read again.

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I’m glad to hear you decided to pay a shop to do what you couldn’t do properly :smile_cat:

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Did you try to unstick the piston? I would have tried.
When the manufacturer gotheir mower back, (if they are sent back) they probably immediately knewhat happened.

My fire department struggled to gethe blade off the smokevacuation fan.
Took one look athe threads and theyvereverse.
(Trying to think what we have at home whichas reverse thread.)

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Not sure thathey did it any more properly than I could have done it.
Buthey have a lift. All I have is four thrift store heavy-duty jack stands.
Owner kindly accepted $250 cash gift. And checked out our 9mm automatic.