oakesje wrote:Hi Guys - instead of selling my damaged C170B I've finally decided to rebuild it...wish me luck - Vic Prefontaine has 70 years experience in metal working for Air Canada and Perimeter and has kindly volunteered to provide guideance, instruction, and help!!! He deserves a gold medal for patience . The rudder and aileron fin is now repaired, all of the other parts are undamaged and hanging on the hangar wall. Now focusing on the fuselage - unrivetted the firewall - wow it looks better already, removed the crumpled forward floor panels and have started on the consol and floor panel that covers the gear boxes. Where do i go to buy two new gear boxes? Any tips on installing. I have contacted P-Ponk but they just have reinforcing parts not the whole gear box and I did an awesome job of crumpling both - especially the right gear box. Thank you for any and all advice/photos/sources on this....lookinig at it positively there are tons of panels that are still beautiful, a few that are crumpled pretty good. Am going to put an O360 Lycoming in, found the STC for the IO-360M1A,B engine does that have to be fuel injected ...not sure about the difference between A, B?
Jill
C-GGPI is coming back to life
Jill,
Do you have pictures of what Damage was done to your gear Box?
Jim
A&P, IA, New owner C170A N1208D, Have rebuilt some 50 aircraft. So many airplanes, So little time!
One of our old members, Don Harrell, a former director, has or had a damaged fuselage that came out of a roof collapse from snow load. I would suspect thaat it would likely have this elusive part.
The bite is that the last I heard, Don was in assisted living in Yuba City,CA. I don't know how to get ahold of him any more. I will try again to see if I can contact his wife, Lucile, to make contact.
If any other of our members has any ingormation on Don, I would appreciate hearing from them.
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. The rudder and aileron fin is now repaired, all of the other parts are undamaged and hanging on the hangar wall. Now focusing on the fuselage - unrivetted the firewall - wow it looks better already, removed the crumpled forward floor panels and have started on the consol and floor panel that covers the gear boxes. Where do i go to buy two new gear boxes? Any tips on installing. I have contacted P-Ponk but they just have reinforcing parts not the whole gear box and I did an awesome job of crumpling both - especially the right gear box. Thank you for any and all advice/photos/sources on this....lookinig at it positively there are tons of panels that are still beautiful, a few that are crumpled pretty good. Am going to put an O360 Lycoming in, found the STC for the IO-360M1A,B engine does that have to be fuel injected ...not sure about the difference between A, B?
