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Battery Box Bolts Loose

 
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 9:24 pm    Post subject: Battery Box Bolts Loose Reply with quote
A heads up to check the tightness of your battery box attach bolts, if
firewall mounted.

I was installing a new battery in our Glasair last week. Years ago
another homebuilder gave me a good piece of advice. He said, "You can't
tell if something is loose by looking at it. You have to touch it." So
before putting the new battery in the firewall mounted tray, I grabbed
the tray and tried to move it. To my amazement, it moved. Quite a lot.

Long story short, all 8 bolts (4 per side) where two full turns loose!
This is the improved firewall that had factory supplied hard wood
mounts in the firewall. (We did ours per a Service Bulletin that came
out when the new GII came out.) I suppose the wood must have shrunk,
probably due to firewall heat?

Time in service: 3000 hours. We do not do aerobatics.

Hope this helps,

Mike Palmer <><

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