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Looking at a new top job, considering Titan Cerminil cylinders. Any reason to avoid them?

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

thanks

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

OBTW, that is not the ECI recommended break in lubrication.

read

http://www.eci2fly.com/pdf/BI07-2005.pd ... rks&page=5

I just put 150 hours on my new rebuild with the Titans since Oct 01 last year... I am also getting in the vicinity of 30 hours per quart. I will get my annual at the end of the month and post the compressions.
David

great. thanks.

The engine I built useing ECIs is about the same with 75 hours per year.

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?

171Q, are we talking about the same Titan? I am referring to the Titan cylinders made by ECI. I didn't know that they actually did overhauls or do they?
David

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...

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...

Umm... did you also perhaps mean Titan Aircraft, La Marque, TX?

Earlier I said that I was getting around 30 hours per quart with my Titans, today I checked and found my oil at 6 1/2 quarts, I started out at just over 7. This is after 42 hours on the tach. Before rebuild I was getting 4 hours per quart... this is almost scary!
David

I have over 1000 hrs on the steel Titans. No problems.

my first blown engine as a pilot was in a Twin Comanche, it never burned any oil either. turned out it was replacing the oil with metal from the lifters and cam