We offer a crank service as a courtesy to our 5th bearing customers. We have, in the past, had requests to have builders’ cranks serviced minus the 5th bearing installation. We do not support this process and here is why: We do believe a Corvair flight engine should have a 5th bearing installed – this…

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Here is a link to William Wynne’s FlyCorvair.net blog site. WW and crew have been amazing in getting the Panther engine up and running. See his blog update here: http://flycorvair.net/2012/11/01/the-panthers-engine-worlds-strongest-corvair-flight-engine/…

The original Panther engine was installed with a serviced stock GM crankshaft. This is what was on display at Oshkosh. Since then we have disassembled the engine and installed the NEW, made in the USA, 4340 billet crankshaft with the single piece 5th bearing journal. The 5th bearing journal is welded to the crankshaft gear and pressed onto the crankshaft…

Here are some pictures on how we decided to jig up the wings, vertical stabilizer and the horizontal stabilizer.  This was a simple way to accomplish what was needed without making it to complicated or permanent considering the space constraints.  The wing jig is simply 2x4s and screws.  The wing is squared and checked for twist…