Michigan PI
Senior Heliman
Location: St Clair Shores, MI
| I usually don't get sucked into these pi$$ing contests but Chad here is starting to spread it on a bit thick. I will start out with some quotes from Chad himself earlier in this thread:
Quote:
"If your asking the question (have I talked to Jeff D) the anwser is NO. "
And another quote complaining about the turnaround time for the engine Ace replaced:
"The reason why it blew up is because I was running it lean. "
Chad,
You have NEVER called me. By your own admission earlier in this thread you have never contacted me. Nor have I ever told you or anyone else for that matter "this will be the last timeI take care of your problem" or any words to that affect.
In the private msg you sent me last night, you indicated "Im quite unhappy about the support ive been given" right after you mentioned "i burned up that 70" and just before you wrote "It took me almost 4 months to get my tt70 back." May I also add that in a previous thread you admittatly leaned the TT70 out to the point of burning it up. It may just be me, but I don't think that too many distributors will replace failed equipment as a result of misuse or abuse. How can you be unhappy with that even if you did have to wait almost 4 months?
Try taking your new Ford or GM product into the service depatrment after driving it for 200 miles with no oil and see if they will honor the factory warantee.
Enough ranting...
Dude, I'm here to help, but if all you intend to do is be negative and bash the distributor and/or me, you will just make a bigger fool of yourself.
Support you aks? Beat this offer:
Fan balance:
Here is a problem that I know about. At the top of the fan hub, there is no chamfer on the threaded hole. This results in a missalignment of most balancing tools. To get around this, balance the fan and clutch as one assembly. You will find that straight out of the package, the balance it relatively close. It is likely that you did more damage by balancing it wrong and actually throwing the balance off.
I'll go one more just for you Chad, send me your fan and clutch along with return postage and I will balance the assembly for you.
Tail Drive:
Not impossible to screw that up. Gear retaining pins must be loctite'd in place as well as the setscrews. The gear backlash must be checked and adjusted if necessarry. Pinning of the driveshaft is optional, I haven't pinned mine and it's the original from the first shipment of January 2000.
Again just for you Chad, send me boom, forward gear housing w/ gears, shafts, bearings, etc, you tail case with shafts bearings etc,, tube drive with bearing along with return postage and I will assemble, adjust, shim if necessary, pin the driveshaft etc, for you. Send everything needed as I will not replace missing or damaged parts.
Shakes:
Likely from an imbalance in the rotor head. The head assy needs to be balanced (period). The best way I have found is to balance the blades seperately from the head assy then balance the head assy with flybar and paddles installed (minus blades) on a HiPoint balancer. This is easily done by disconnecting the links on the lower half of the swashplate and removing the mainshaft with the swash and everything above it intact. Balance the entire assembly on the HiPoint.
Once again Chad, just for you, send me the head assembly minus the blades, along with return postage, and I will balance it for you.
Wood blades:
I hate wood blades and no 60 size ship should be running them IMO. But if you just MUST run them, glue the grips as per Ace's web site. Shrink the covering being careful not to warp the blades. If the blades are warped, they can usually be straightened fairly close with a heatgun by CAREFULLY shrinking the covering to pull out the warp but if they are way out, send them back. Due to my disdain for wood blades, the offer for me to do it for you is not open for the blades.
Bearings:
I don't care what any manuufacturer claims... bearings need to be greased (period). The best way is to purchase "The Greaser" from Pete's or a shop that carries it. Properly greased bearings will last several seasons and I have yet to wear one out that has been properly greased (not including damage to main shaft or feathing shaft radial bearings as a result of a crash).
TT70 Engine
Sorry, I can't help you there as I have no first hand experience with this engine. I can however, refer you to Brent Young (he's listed also on Ace's web site). Brent has considerable experience with this engine.
If there are any other issues you are having, please let me know and I'll try to help you with them however, if you are just interested in complaining and slinging mud, you can keep it to yourself and possibly follow the fine leadership of Dwaynet. |
