UdoR
I don’t really want to go into details.
@Niner_Mike, at Loma Air they don’t overhaul cylinders and don’t even have equipment for that (or at least they didn’t when I went there for Lycoming engine school two years ago). They overhaul entire engines and replace cylinders with new ones in the vast majority of cases.
My friendly mechanic recommends GAMA at Oxford. They currently have my IO360, so it’s too early to give an opinion.
GAMA took over a firm then going by the name of Ronaldson, I believe…
I use only certain US shops, nobody in Europe.
Didn’t you use Norvik for a cylinder head work?
Yes, once, due to AOG. Valve stuck.
Ultranomad wrote:
@Niner_Mike, at Loma Air they don’t overhaul cylinders and don’t even have equipment for that (or at least they didn’t when I went there for Lycoming engine school two years ago). They overhaul entire engines and replace cylinders with new ones in the vast majority of cases.
You are wrong, I know for a fact they overhaul and repair cylinders when requested (and have the equipment, definitely for longer than 10 years). It’s not because they use new cylinders for an engine overhaul that they can’t overhaul any.
Eagle20 wrote:
You are wrong, I know for a fact they overhaul and repair cylinders when requested
I’m not saying that you are wrong, but Ultranomad gave a reasonably good argument for why he would know that they don’t. What’s your argument for knowing that they do?
I know someone working there who makes a living out of servicing cylinders :) and I’ve been there too (I’m from Belgium, they’re pretty close by), seen their equipment.
