Torque check

Having had a the dreaded flu for a few weeks it was time to check the torque settings to update the log book during these early test flights and getting her ready for the air test.

With torque set to 32nm pretty much every bolt was spot on .. one or two took one extra crank to bring them up to spec.

Jabiru are renowned for wandering out of torque and it only takes about 20 mins to check all the bolts .. remembering the hidden one inside the rocker cover behind the small grub screw.

One thing I’m not mad about is the lipstick

Its calibrated for the Jabiru 2200 BUT in trike mode … and the Ranger obviously sits on the tail. This means you are constantly making that mental switch on reading.

The sunp is so pitifully small anyway and James (the Chief engineer at TLAC) always used to say just put a piece of thin wood down to the very bottom to see what is actually in there !

Keeping a very close eye on oil levels as I run-through the first high powered climbs and check it on cool down EVERY flight