Titan cylinders
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Titan cylinders
Looking at a new top job, considering Titan Cerminil cylinders. Any reason to avoid them?
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OBTW, that is not the ECI recommended break in lubrication.steve grewing wrote:I have 'em and have had no problems in the 120 hours since installation. The engine has averaged 30 hours between adding a quart of oil. I used ECI's break-in procedure using Shell mineral oil for the first 10 hours. Phillips X/C 20W/50 thereafter.
Steve
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http://www.eci2fly.com/pdf/BI07-2005.pd ... rks&page=5
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I just had a bad deal with the carburator on a Titan overhauled engine.
We've just installed an O360 that was overhauled in 1999 and never taken out of the crate. We did our first leak check run up last week and the mixture had no effect, (no cut off at full lean.) I took the carb in to a shop here and they found not only the mixture linkage installed incorrectly, but the trhottle linkage had not been cottered, there was plastic gunk attached to one of the check vavles, and the float had an AD on it.
I don't know when the float AD came out, but the log entry detailing the engine overhaul says the carb was disassembled, inspected, and reassembled with new components.
I'm the third owner since the purchase of the engine from Titan, so I doubt I have any recourse with them... just bad luck for me I guess, but it set me back some considerable cash! Anyone else heard of this kind of thing with Titan?
We've just installed an O360 that was overhauled in 1999 and never taken out of the crate. We did our first leak check run up last week and the mixture had no effect, (no cut off at full lean.) I took the carb in to a shop here and they found not only the mixture linkage installed incorrectly, but the trhottle linkage had not been cottered, there was plastic gunk attached to one of the check vavles, and the float had an AD on it.
I don't know when the float AD came out, but the log entry detailing the engine overhaul says the carb was disassembled, inspected, and reassembled with new components.
I'm the third owner since the purchase of the engine from Titan, so I doubt I have any recourse with them... just bad luck for me I guess, but it set me back some considerable cash! Anyone else heard of this kind of thing with Titan?
'56 C-172 180hp Tailwheel Converted
Umm... did you also perhaps mean Titan Aircraft, La Marque, TX?N171Q wrote:Oops. Sorry 'bout that. My overhaul was from Titan Aircraft Engines out of LaMarquette, TX. Not ECI's Titan cylinders. I jsut saw Titan and started typing...
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