Wrenching, Or Not Pink Flowers

[QuietOne]

My husband was down at the Warhawk Air Museum today. (Warhawk Air Museum, Nampa, Idaho) He called and said, "They have the cowlings off of the P-40. You should come down and take pictures". They were looking for an oil leak on this:


Details according to my husband:
"The aircraft is a mid WWII P-40N Warhawk (Kittyhawk IV) in Empire service.
In its 1980s rebuild the aircraft was modified to a two seat dual control format.
I have flown in the aircraft. The paint scheme “Parrot Head” was used by only about 12 aircraft of a training squadron at Napier field in 1943."

[QuietOne]

They were taking the cowlings off so that they could see if they could spot where the oil was leaking from. These are two of the pieces.

[QuietOne]

It involved a lot of wrenching -



And of course, no wrenching session is complete without a bit of "hangar flying" (aka "bench racing")

[QuietOne]

The leak turned out to be a loose hose clamp. It made quite a mess! JC plans on redoing all of the hoses, making them longer so that they can be double clamped at both ends.

[QuietOne]

One of JC's helpers was wearing the perfect socks for working on a P-40!

[Iguanasan]

Interesting set. Thanks for sharing!