vague engine shop respone

[Scott Aviation]

Hey Guys, So I get an email from my engine shop that is testing my io-360 after rebuild, "apparantly" my mag cap's are toast after only 40 hours so that was $300. So after that repair they ran the engine yesterday.   Then I get an email today saying,

"Hi...

We ran your engine Friday.

So give us a call Monday sometime and we can discuss how it ran.

..."

So how does a person take that?  Good, bad?  Am I over analyzing it, of course they went home and now I am left to stew all weekend as to whether my engine ran good, or its a bag of crap and needs to be torn apart again.. any comments would be appreciated... you know in todays world of emails, body langauge and tone of voice are completly left out of the equation.

Thanks for any input

Chris

[Piloto]

If you contracted the shop to overhaul your engine you should expect to run like new after the overhaul. Otherwise what was the objective of the shop with your engine. Tell the shop that anything less than running like new that you will talk to the local FSDO to see if it would be acceptable to fly.

José

[Cruiser]

It is what it is, you cannot change that.

IF they rebuilt it and it needs more work they should be fixing it. How do mag caps become "toast" after 40 hours? Sounds like there is more 'xplaining to do........

Call them Monday, for now at least you know it runs.

[Scott Aviation]

Well the engine was a joint effort between me and the shop and they were finishing it up, so any problems are on my dime, I just dont know how to read the comment, and ya I dont understand the mag cap's either I've got the dual mag d-2000 on mine, and a yellow tag in my logbook stating the mag was a replacement refurb just 40 hours ago, I did not expect them to be bad so soon, agreed there needs to be some more conversation happening, I just think it was a lousy email leaving me pondering how the run went.

 

 

[Steve65E-NC]

Short of something in writing, the mixed responsibility on the project makes their responsibility and liability vague.  They are probably just exercising some CYA to support that vague responsibility and keep it from becoming full responsibility.  This is about fences and neighbors.  I would not assume the worst.  Give them a call.

[Scott Aviation]

So I got the word from the engine shop today, the engine ran perfect, pulled good power and was very smooth, the only issue was when they went to shut it down it would not stop and had to be killed with the mags, they said there was some fuel coming out of the fuel servo and likely needs to be overhauled, I can't find anywhere in my engine log more recent than 1982 that it was replaced so going on that its 30 years old and needs to be overhauled now, so I called a place in B.C. and they want close to $2000 for the overhaul, I called another shop in Michigan that said $1500 for the servo, divider overhaul and injector testing.  My question to you guys is does anyone know of a place to get a fuel servo setup sent out for overhaul that is dependable and a better price than that.  Please advise and thanks in advance.

 

Chris

[jetdriven]

Our Bendix RSA-5 was overhauled 7 years ago by Mike's Aircraft Fuel Metering, in Tulsa OK.  It still  runs good.  1636$ in 2005.    9406 E 46th St N, Tulsa, OK 74117
918-838-6217

 

Precision recommends overhauling the fuel injection system at engine overhaul.  Ours wasnt done at overhaul, and after a couple thousand in "hard to start" repairs they figured it out.