OVERHAULING Aircraft Engines - How Its Made - Airworx
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- OVERHAULING Aircraft Engines - How Its Made - Airworx owner Chris Collum walks us through the stepXstep process his shop uses to overhaul Aircraft Engines. His core business is the FRANKLIN Aircraft Engine but also does a good amount of Lycoming and Continental engine work as well. The FRANKLIN Engine is a very unique engine and not quite as well known as the other "Staple Engines." You can find Chris online by searching for " AIRWORX LLC" www.airworxaviation.com/
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Hello sir, I've 2 doubts, 1st is it possible to run the engine with just 2 cylinder, and 2nd, will all cylinders speed is same or different, in piston engines, humble request u for clarification sir, thank you
Apprenticeship please 🙏
There's a man dedicated to his craft, and knowledgeable too.
Impressive right? Thank you for watching!
Wow, after 45+ years, I understand why my Uncle was a huge fan of the Franklin Engine. He started out w/ a Stinson 108, then he put a 220 horse power, w/ a self engineered fuel injection system into his Homebuilt Barracuda. Thx I learned a lot w/ this video, unfortunately my Uncle Harold pasted 5 years ago. I think he would have liked this video. Thx again.
We get our Lycoming's rebuilt/refurbished by these guys. Their work is impeccable and the little things they do make all the difference. When an engine is shipped to us, it is packaged well enough to withstand Armageddon. Moisture desiccant packs, plastic wrap...you can stick it in a corner and get to it months later and it comes out looking like it left the factory. Just high quality work. And they run like a scalded dog. I would almost prefer a brand new engine go through their process first before we used it! lol
@J.C. Kohle Real race engines are built to this level of precision and higher yet. Aircraft engines are by no means high performance.
@@theprofessorfate6184 yeah right
@@johngnipper8768 For their displacement, they are clearly low performance.
@@theprofessorfate6184 They also run much longer than say a drag racing engine as well Depends on how you classify “Performance”.Reliability needs to be factored in ….
@@johngnipper8768 they're like most horizontally opposed engines, long on life, low on performance. Even still, if they were so great, you wouildn't have to rebuild them just for sitting a couple of years. That's proof of why they're really crappy.
I am here just pissing my pants at the incredible attention to detail that Chris adheres to. This perfectionist has no place for compromise in his shop. Barring absolute abuse, I cannot imagine the pain and anger he would suffer if one of his rebuilds would fail under normal use. A craftsman after my own heart !!
I doubt that has ever happened.
Hell Chris needs his own YT channel!
Chris is absolutely the best!!!
This is such a dying art form. I have so much respect for him keeping these incredible engines going so beautiful aircraft can stay in the air!
The engine you guys wheeled out for delivery spoke volumes for the quality of work you do. Very nice product gentlemen.
Stone cold Steve sure knows his stuff. Great video, very knowledgeable. I know where I’m sending my engine!
Respect. Put that shop on as high a ground as you can find and make it tornado proof. That amount of gear, know-how and talent ain't easy to reconstitute.
Found Chris from your channel and its only about an hour drive from Gulf Breeze. I am rebuilding a Lycoming IO-360 angle valve 200HP for my RV-7A project. I dropped off all parts needing machining yesterday at Air Worx. I feel real comfortable after meeting Chris and his crew. Thanks Bryan for the channel and episode on Air Worx
You are VERY welcome! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment here! :-)
Chris has a lot of very good equipment in that shop! That and how clean it is speaks volumes about his quality
Nice to see a guy that gives 100% on his work. Very informative
I like this shop. “Perfection is a Must”.
As a Sport Pilot, EAB Aircraft Owner, A&P mechanic and Airline Maintenance Engineer, this was very interesting to me. Thanks
Thats how you build a engine . Your the man Cris
Franklin's have a beautiful sound of their own, and they are the smoothest running engines ever designed. Knew a guy with a 108-2, and there was absolutely no vibration at all. If you have never been in a aircraft with a Franklin, you need to take a ride, you will be amazed!!
Had a 6V 200 in my Hiller years ago. Glad to see someone is still showing them some love
Xlnt video!!! I always wondered WHY one of the instructors that I had, going through A&P school (many years ago) RAVED about the Franklin engines so much... Now I know why... This shop seems to be an Xlnt place to do work like this and they seem to be very well organised, clean and knowledgeable... Great program!!!
What an incredible tour. Thanks to Chris!
This is amazing work ethic & passion. Makes me want to build an airplane just to have one of Chris’s engines! Thanks for this great interview Bryan.
"awesome video" i cant understand how anyone can give this a thumbs down. chris seems to know his stuff, when it comes to rebuilding these engines.
This is more information about ga engines than all the rest of the internet combined. This guys company deserves serious investment.
Great job Chris! Impressive. Thank you!
Totally awesome! Converting the old motor into a brand new motor. Wow tolerances Less than thickness of a paper. Ten stars in book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍🏻
Old school shop, really appreciate that work ethic and valuable knowledge so readily shared makes you believe this shop and machinists are going to do the very best job for you!
Proud and “made in America”!
That guy knows his engines!😁
YES. Yes he does. Gives you confidence that a job will be done correctly and safely doesn't it? Thank you for watching!
He did the 220 Franklin on my maule m4 and I couldn't be happier.
Cost..? 30k
My deepest respect. Accuracy like this is a phenomenal skill. (I kept up with most of it, but only just)!
Had to stop this video and say I like this guy. I want to know this level of expertise too.
i like the rod boring idea on the big end very nice... and love the diamond reamer for $1000 for the valve guides... just wow cross hatch... so nice that will hold oil in the angle cut.. a great thing is to cut the OD of the valve guide to fit into the head and not keep cutting bigger every time on the head where the guide go's like he said keep cutting the head until the head where the valve guide go's until it is so big you cannot get a valve guide big enough now the head is junk ... remember around 2000 hours or less you got to rebuild the engine .... how many valve guides can you keep cutting into that head ??? he is truly the best i have seen on machining engines i have seen...
I'm definitely using these guys to do my engine... As soon as i have a plane though.. and as soon as i get my license... And I'm able to save up enough to pay for the school too...
Gotta hand it to you that Franklin Engine is just beautiful. Nice work Airworx.
I know very little about aircraft engines but listening to this gentleman I am sure there is almost know one who knows this work than he.
Im not an airplane guy, but that Franklin engine is beautiful. Great video and if I ever need it, you will be my rebuilder.
Thanks for the great video on engine building. The Franklin conversion for the Cessna 172 seems to have been a popular upgrade in horsepower back in the day. I have a vintage 1963 172E model and before purchasing it I was looking to build a Van's RV-9. There is a lot of good crossover information regarding Legacy Aircraft and Experimental. I really enjoy your channel. Keep up the good work. Oh, and Chris is a machine, just the size of him should keep the Riff Raff out. He really knows his stuff.
@jeefflanyt THANK YOU for your positive support here and sharing that information. I really appreciate you. I'll probably return to visit Chris and see a few engines running on his newly upgraded engine test stand. Stay tuned!
See the "Minime" in red shirt the background do the work. I always wondered how accurate the rebuild of aircraft engines is, basically exactly same spec as a brand new one. Thanks for letting us see inside the workshop , very interesting.
love to listen to a professional share there knowledge of there chosen profession you can tell that this man loves what he does and takes pride in his work my dad had that same work ethic and he taught me the same always give 100 percent and autograph your work with excellence.
I’ve been a corporate turboprop and Jet pilot for years and being a gearhead myself, I would say I know a considerable amount about aircraft, systems and their powerplants. However, I could watch guys like this all day long that are extremely knowledgeable and true artists of their craft. Always looking to learn more no matter how much you know or think you might now. Thanks for sharing! Awesome!
pretty cool! im a 17 year old private pilot and am trying to learn all of the little ins an outs of aviation including the mechanic side the business side all of it man very interesting stuff.
@@idekav. Keep it up, you can never EVER know enough about your aircraft, it’s systems (powerplant, hydraulic, electrical, environmental systems), it’s little idiosyncrasies (they all have them), it’s behaviors....what I would call personality and the list goes on and on. Never stop learning and never feel complacent with what you do know. If there is one piece of advice I feel to be the most important it is exactly that....never become complacent and never extend your capabilities out of your personal limits. Set them and abide by them religiously. You can feel uncomfortable, we all do and that is how you learn and become better. Your gut will tell you if you’re pushing to hard or don’t feel safe in a particular situation. When that happens, and it will many times....First fly the airplane, then diagnose and resolve the situation if possible, commit the situation to memory and educate yourself on that particular event. Take them one at a time and focus on learning and becoming better. In addition, rely on more experienced pilots, your instructor, manuals/text and don’t be afraid to say you don’t know and ask. If you run into someone not willing to help, of which there are very few anymore, move on, that person was not someone you want to learn from and was probably not capable of answer your question or helping you in a positive way anyways. Keep it up and soak up ever possible piece of knowledge you can pertaining to your piloting skills, aircraft, ATC, airport operations, maintenance (a big one I feel gets overlooked) and the list goes on. Stay safe, stay within your abilities and strive to learn and you’ll be very successful. Good luck!
A expert in his field thanks really appreciate this 👍
Great video. I knew of Franklin engines, but that's it. Very informative video. I never realized how different they are from Continental and Lycoming engines... the Franklin's are quite impressive now that I see how they're built... 👍🏾
Good video! Good hosting by letting the guy talk about his craft. Too many hosts feel the need to chitter chatter.
Great tour of the shop! I really enjoyed that! Lots of good info!
Glad to see they peace paint there engines (worked at an overhaul facility myself) Cool place!
Being a pilot (strictly for fun) for over 20 years and a machinist for over 30 years, this guy is doing his job very right. For the last 16 years I have been reman'ed jet engines.
When you constrain a part then machine it, it will be that much better in performance. This is the way most parts I do get machined, in a constrained configuration.
When he is talking about tolerances, he dead on. 10,000 of an inch, most people can't comprehend what this is. it is written ".0005", if you took an inch and divided it into 2,000 divisions, this would be the sizes he talking about. A human hair is appx. .004 - .007, .0005 is 8 -14 times smaller!
I would love to come work there after I retire!
Very nice shop indeed!
A true artisan
This guy knows his work!
First time having seen or heard if the Franklin engines. Impressive design & build.
The shop owner knows his stuff.
Seems that way right? Thanks for taking the time to watch and also engage here. I appreciate you!
Wow thanks for the tour!! That was very interesting.
WOW, what a great channel. I've worked on aircraft my whole life but mainly high-performance military jet aircraft. Worked F-14 Flight Test from the beginning of the program to the end of production. Then I went to work on corporate jet aircraft. It looks like a very interesting channel and will definitely follow. 👍
Semper Fi from Stache Air, great walkthrough of your shop and what you do. I will post a link on my Facebook site as I am a DME now.
Holy Crap! Quality control through the wazoo! Can I send my car engine to be overhauled here ? I feel like i'll get a super well refurbished engine. Awesome video!
Wow Chris what a wealth of knowledge !
Absolutely amazing 👍
I'm just an enthusiast, a million years ago I was trained as an auto mechanic I even board out engine myself, I found it very impressive the work that they do.
*bored
Can't thank you enough for sharing such valuable info.
Also New sub to your channel,🍺 cheers.
Excellent vid.....done many my self over the years.....really enjoyed it.
Keep them coming Bryan enjoying each one, your doing a great job.
@John Fisk THANK YOU! Planning on trying my best to go full time with this in 2020 with you and everyone here supporting and helping build this community! Thanks for continuing to watch and support. I truly appreciate you!
Thank You for all that great info about Engine Overhaul.
Great workshop and a real passion for the job, it's great to see this kind of work
Engineered to perfection. Thank you for sharing👍
Thank you! I am quite impressed as well!
Thank you for taking the time to watch. I appreciate you.
Love your work. Thx for the information
I would say he knows his stuff!
Good video and gained a better understanding on what goes into rebuilding an aircraft engine.
Thanks for educating us
This is so much cooler than my job...
Located Brewton AL. I think they are hiring ;-) Link in description.
First time .Well worthwhile...subscribed
This was pretty Awesome.. Nice content.. 👍
Great vid! So much info, love it.
Attention to detail👍. Good video
wow what a nice shop... i have rebuilt many hundreds of engines for cars and trucks and to see this type is really something to see... very high quality machines that cost a very lot of cash... and i never have seen anything like what he is showing here i got watch this many times ... auto machine shop are barely okay machining and cost a lot to do anything and with covid-19 machine shop in san diego take 2 months to do a valve job and cost $500 just to do ford v8 5.0L heads crazy ... i can't imagine how much it would cost to do a rebuild at his shop...... but it will be done correctly and it is worth paying for a good quality when you are way up in the air with family...
These guys are absolutely perfect, I love the three letter abbreviations. yOU DONT KNOW anything but WE DO! He should have a trip through a NASCAR shop, ummm yeah
Interesting and instructive, thanks.
I like that he turns the guides instead of punching the guide bores ever larger in the head, considering how rare Franklin parts are getting. Does he offer "crate" Franklin engines?
He does a lot of things that makes sense doesn't he?I believe Chris does offer crate Franklin Engines. And I think there might be some new offerings here in the near future. Stay tuned. Thank you for taking the time to watch and engage here. I really appreciate you!
wow this is really nice educational video, love Aviation & race cars, this place would be a happy environment to work in. if i know anyone that looking for an engine rebuild i will recommend them to here.
great video.
Good information - thanks for the video.
They have got a ton of machinery. Man what a initial investment that must have been.
Fascinating. Thanks !
Thank you! Thank you for taking the time to watch. I really appreciate you. See you in the next videos!
absolutely awesome video. Would love to work in this shop for a month
Nice quality on that completed engine at the end
Fantastic video!
Thank you for the video.
Why is Stone Cold Steve Austin overhauling aircraft engines?
Right?! Hah! No engine hoist required in HIS shop! Thanks for watching. I appreciate your support!
Workout in the hangar part 2! " crankshaft curls and piston pumps"
@@FlyingJournalism Hah, I have done a 'crankshaft curl' in the shop!
MrJazsa80 Ha! Yea he does bear a resemblance to Steve Austin!👍🏻👍🏻
Imagine sending your engine there. They say the crankshaft is bad and needs to go. You don't believe them and curse them out for trying to rip you off. You go there to give the owner a piece of your mind, And you find THIS guy waiting for you when you burst through the door.
Then you say hi …….
Then he shows you the micrometer on the old crank... Hands you another bill for his extra time.... Then he says HELLO????
Great video !! He definitely knows his shit, but it still blows my mind that we still pay around 40k for a 150hp 80s technology engine for your plane while a state of the art LT4 engine with 650h for less than half
NonyaBusiness! Why would you rebuild it when you can buy one for under 15k
Great place to work!
Nice hangar.
Cleaner than mine.
Dude knows his stuff. Plus works out somewhere🤣
Excellent!
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great guy,great job!!!
This is great 👍
Great video
That's the shop I send my engine to .
Video was great 👍
Excellent Video..
Damn if I had a plane and needed an engine this would be he man to see . I had never heard of a Franklin engine
Would be nice to see some of those machines in operation !
Impressive!
YES! I was very impressed myself. Thank you for taking the time to watch and support here. I really appreciate you!
Hats off outstanding workman ship
Chris, and his crew, do a great job right?! Thank you for watching!