Is The FREE Abandoned Airplane Finally Ours ?! Ep5

I'm working on engine number two here. I wanted to get some of this on video. I'm just trying to hurry through this. We got to get this thing started. This is going to be hours of work, but I couldn't get the other one started. These are the plugs that I got out of engine number two. They are much worse than engine number one, but we couldn't get engine one on the right started. I found a couple more issues. I ordered some parts for it, but I'm not sure how quick I can get them here. We got to get this thing started one way or the other. I'm going to keep wrenching on this thing. I'm going to do what I can. Try to get this started, man. Hey, I was thinking about something. I got an idea for you. Okay. We need to race plane versus motorcycle. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm going to race an airplane against you on a motorcycle. Yes, sir. Let's show on. I mean, that seems a little bit unfair. For you, I know, but you know what? I'm willing to give you that handicap. I'll tell you what, you can pick which airplane. You can pick the airplane and whatever motorcycle you want. Actually, you can pick where we're going too. I'm in though. This'll be a lot of fun. Let's get something scheduled in. We'll figure out the vehicles. We'll figure out the details. I'll have my people talk to your people, and we'll get something on the books soon. All right. Sounds good. Cool. Sounds good. Awesome, brother. I'll talk to you soon. All right, man. All right, later. All right, later. Did you just take a phone call with that speaker? Oh, yeah. This is the new Cove speaker, man. This thing's totally sick. How does it sound? It sounds amazing. Here, let me play it for you. This Cove speaker is so cool. Let me show you what it does. Check this out. Watch this. It's literally a true stereo speaker system. Each one of them has their own battery power. You can split it. You can still take phone calls on it. These Cove speakers are awesome. So how long are these? Oh, man. I can play these speakers all day on one charge. So how do I get one of these? Put in the code RR67 from the Cove site, or you can click the link right under a video. 67% discount if you click the link or enter the code RR67. I'm not going to tell you to buy a product if I don't think it's awesome. This thing really kicks butt. They have a bunch of other products as well on the website. Check them out. Enter the code. It's our code to you guys. It does support the channel, and we really appreciate it. All right. So we're back here with the 401. We did a bunch of work. Completely cleaned out the fuel system. I did it off camera. I'm just trying to get things done as quick as possible here. I did get a chance to talk to the owner this morning, or the old owner. He's a great guy, because I know we had the offer, or he had the offer on the 401 from this random person. I believe the story was that he wanted to sell it to a scrap company or something. I'm not sure. I even questioned, is it a real offer? Is this a real guy? The old owner and I talked about it. We're not sure, but he's on our side. He doesn't want to sell it, although he could use the money. We've become really good friends through this. One of the things that I've really recognized too, you do have some scoundrels in anything, but you also have some really good people in the aviation community. I love seeing all your comments, the good and the bad. I love that you guys are so invested that you'll research stuff. You'll talk to people. You'll ask questions. You'll leave comments. You'll throw me under the bus. I think it's awesome. I love that you guys are invested in this, because that's how I am. I'm invested in all of us here at Rebuild Rescue. We're invested in this project. We're going to get something done with this. At any rate, let's get this thing started. We're going to pull these cowlings off because they're flopping around here and they're in my way. We'll pull both of those cowlings off. When this thing starts, this makes a ton of wind. Even when this thing's turning over with no spark plugs in, this engine turns over twice as fast as the other one. It's given me really good hope. It has oil here at the turbo. When I pull this line off, there's oil here. There wasn't oil at the other turbo. The gauge, when I'm turning it over, after it turns over for a bit, shows a little bit of oil pressure. The other engine didn't do that. Today, we're going to get the injection fuel pressure. We're going to check that. We're going to also check the compression on this one. Now, this is compression of an engine that was locked up and unlocked, so it's not going to be high, but we'll be able to see if it has broken rings from unseasoning the motor. We're going to be able to see, are the valves stuck? We're going to be able to see, is there a lifter problem or a cam problem or a broken pushrod? Because we don't know. We don't know what the real history is of this and what happened as it's sitting and what's locked up and what's not. We didn't get a chance to do any of the other engine. We're going to do it on this engine today. We're going to take you guys along to see what we find out. With the more and more I read the comments of how bad all of these bird droppings are, I'm starting to think I should probably at least keep some gloves on. So, we're still trying to work out some of the places to keep tools and to keep supplies here because we're pretty jam-packed, but I actually had a fan. I guess we have fans now, which is kind of weird. That said, they are our number one viewer. Drop off a toolbox for us. So, we have a toolbox that we'll be using here, so it should help clean things up a bit. So, that hose there is actually dry rotted and just crumbled as we pulled that apart. That's disgusting. We'll get that cleaned up later. I keep thinking what's going to happen when we get this fired up. It's 100% our airplane and we can inspect it with some APs and see what are the chances. I mean, it's going to be a ton of money no matter what if it would ever be able to be flown again, but can it be? Is it possible? I guess anything's possible with enough money, I think a couple of you have said that before. All right, so we got our fuel injection service kit here. I'm hoping that we can get this all hooked up and at least see what kind of pressure it does have on the electric side and also the manual side of the pump. From what I understand, it'll run off of the electric pump alone or it'll run off of the manual pump alone. The idea is to have two systems just in case one fails as a backup for the other one. I just got to figure out what goes to what. So, before I do all this, I'm going to pull this fitting off of the top of the fuel distribution manifold and see if one of the fittings I have will work so we can check the pressure and see how much pressure we do have. All right, perfect fit. I think that'll seal. I'm just going to find something to stick in the end here to finish our fuel pressure tester. You shove a ratchet in the end? Yeah, it's an extension. Sometimes you don't have all the fancy stuff that people have to get things done, but you still got to get it done, so we'll make do with what we have and figure it out here together along the way. So, we have a gauge. Once we turn this electric pump on, is it going to hold pressure or does it build a little bit and then quit because it does need to have constant pressure over these injectors? So, let's get that checked now. Let's see if she gets any pressure or not. Any pressure? All right, we got pressure. All right, so we know that the electric pump gave 15 psi pressure. I do have to check in the engine manual, the airplane manual, to see what kind of pressure it's supposed to have. I think somebody told me or mentioned 6 psi. I'm not sure on a mechanically injected engine on one of these TSIO 520s what it should be, but that's 15. Sounds good. So, now we're going to turn the engine over. I'm going to keep the electric pumps off, but I'm going to turn the engine over and see what kind of pressure the mechanical pump builds. Claire! All right, so it looks like the mechanical pump might not be building pressure, but I do know that they'll start and they'll run off of the electric pump because they're made to do that. All right, so we have fuel pressure here. I feel good at 15 psi. Based on how these are set up, I make sure we take our contraption apart and I get my tools back out of it. So, this went all the way up to 15. Yeah, I think that'll be plenty. Knock on wood. You're right. Knock on wing. Some of the fuel coming out of there. Smells like fuel though. It's just old fuel. It's like a greenish yellow. So, we've got fuel pressure up the distribution block and I already did pull apart all the lines and I blew them all out. There is a clear path through all these lines. They are all clean. I did not pull the injectors out like I did on the other side and, you know, sonic clean them or anything like that. So, if we go to fire it up and it doesn't fire up, I'll probably swap the injectors out from the other side because I know they're perfectly clean, but I think we're going to go ahead and chance it without cleaning those out just because because we're... I want to get it started. So, we are going to check compression in all the cylinders so we can see if it does have compression. What we're trying to do is we're trying to see, you know, do we have a stuck ring? Do we have a broken ring? Do we have stuck valves? Do we have bent push rods? I mean there could be so many different things that could be wrong with it, but this will at least tell us, you know, about where we're at testing all six cylinders. So, we got the compression tester mounted into the head into where the spark plug goes. So, we're going to start here. We're going to work our way around the whole engine. We're going to check each cylinder. Yeah, so here's the compression. I think this engine is a... it's a turbocharger, so it's lower compression. I think it's about a seven to one compression ratio, maybe a seven and a half to one. So, this is not going to be up in the 200 range or the 180. I'll be happy to see like 30 at this point in each cylinder and 30 psi on one of these engines will start. I've seen them start with 20. So, all right, so let's open the throttle body up and give it some power. Obviously, keep the mags off. We're going to turn this over and see what that compression gauge reads. So, what did it read? Yes, 90 psi is like really good. From one of these engines, it's like really, really good. I'm a little blown away and a lot excited. I'm really interested to see now like if we would go over on the other engine and we would check that one. I'm wondering like is there going to be one cylinder that's bad? Is it, you know, I'm not going to do that because we got to get this started, but at some point we are going to do that. One of the viewers mentioned naming the airplane the Phoenix if we end up restoring it. Flight of the Phoenix, that's pretty cool. I can't believe that. I can't believe that that has about 100 psi, 110. That's awesome. Clear. Clear. How much? No way. That's crazy. Now, some of these cylinders may read a little more than others because they could have more oil in them helping the ring seal because of all the fluids that I dumped in there getting this to unseize. All right, last one. Clear. 120 psi. So we have compression in all six cylinders. We actually have good compression in all six cylinders. So that means that we have no stuck rings. We have no broken rings. Chances are the pistons aren't that scarred up. The walls of the cylinders aren't that scarred up, if at all. Valves are opening and closing. We have no bent push rods. We have no camshaft issues, worn lobes, anything like that. Warm lifters. All right, so we have oil pressure. It's spinning a lot faster than the other engine. We got compression. We have air. We have fuel. We have spark. Now, one of the mags, this mag, this right mag here is not working, but the left one is. So it does have spark in the lower half of the right cylinders and the upper half of left cylinders. So it should start. It should start. I'm not going to say it will start because that's going to jinx us, but it should start. Totally excited. Let's get these plugs in and I guess we're going to pull it outside and see if she'll start. So if any of you ever need help putting spark plugs in, give me a call because I think by now I'm probably rated as a professional aviation spark plug installer. Plug wires are all on. Got fuel. We got spark. I believe we got air. I think the throttle bodies are working. We have compression. Let's get this outside and see if she'll start up. So before we take this outside and try to start it, make sure you guys pause the video and do me a favor. Put something in the comments. Is this going to start or am I going to be a loser again and it doesn't start? So put your guess in the comments. So normally I wouldn't do this because my pride would get in the way, but I think I've lost a little bit of that in this project. So I'm going to go ahead just in case it helps a little bit and get a little bit of starting fluid in the turbo here. Hopefully that doesn't just backfire and explode. It's primed. Mags are hot. Oh wait a second. Wait a minute. I almost forgot. Hey buddy. Yeah we're just getting ready to start this 401 up and you know I thought I was missing something. So I thought I'd give you a call and see if you could hook us up a little bit. Hey Jason. Jimmy here. Congrats on your plane and of course can I get a clear prop? Clear prop. We got oil pressure. We got some fuel pressure. I do have the pump on. No I don't. So it's running off the mechanical pump right now as well. It's the RPM. Got manifold pressure. Let's see if the props want to work at all. I think we have oil pressure. We got some temperature. So let's see what it does. Oh yeah. Prop's working. Let's see if this EEM 760 is working or not. All right there's the EGT. There's the battery charging. Let's see if it uh yep there it goes down. There it's going up. So the alternator is working. Avionics are moving around. Got good oil pressure. All right we did it guys. It started. So that that makes this plane 100 percent ours. That's ours. This is our plane. This is our plane to do what we want with it. This is our plane to take it as far as all of you want to go. So we're going to keep digging in. We're going to get the other one running. We're going to check all the spars. We're going to inspect it. We're going to clean it out. Thank you guys for coming along on this adventure. If this thing's going to fly, you guys are going to make the decision. Put down in the comments. Let's fly. How close are you to the airport? Hour and a half? All right I'll meet you here in an hour and a half. Okay around 1 30. I'll see you then. Thanks brother. Yep bye. Yeah so that was just the owner of the 401. I have a feeling he knows why I was calling him. He's going to be heading out here soon and he's going to see this thing run. I know he's going to be excited. So I can't wait for him to get here. I can't wait for him to hear this thing run and see it run. I can't wait for the future of this project. I'm so excited. So Sam, I know this airplane meant a ton to you and I know it means a ton to you now. It's even hard for you to see it. Right. I told you I wasn't looking at this airplane ever again. Yeah and I kind of. Yet here I am. I know and I appreciate that. I appreciate everything you've done and the friendship you know and the the whole thing about which you know for myself and viewers which really created like a lot of talk and a lot of feelings and stuff is this guy calling up offering you 20 grand. You know what I mean? Right. And the most amazing thing is the first thing you did is reach out to me and told me the story about him and sent me some even some information you had and you know that you said hey you know no this is what we're doing you know you're going to get this thing started and that's what we're doing. So for me it just it blew me away you know with how you keep your word and how you really want to see something happen with it. I think there's bigger plans for this for everybody. I really do. I think there's bigger plans. All right. I'm thinking you probably started this thing up once or twice. A while ago. A while ago? Think you remember how to start it? I think I can figure it out. I know you don't want to hop in here. No I really don't but I will. But let's just see what we can do here. Oh my gosh. So do these controls and everything look familiar? Oh yeah. Which one are we starting? The left. Court prop. I believe you. That's the crappy seat. It's a belted potty. Really? Yeah. Oh I see it. So when you had seven people you had to sit back there and we called it you get the crappy seat. You get to sit in the ****. Yeah. I want to you know thank you for coming out today. You know thank you for the opportunity. No problem. I appreciate and I appreciate the friendship. Yeah I expect this thing to be flying in like a month right? Well we were shooting for two weeks but if we get a month it's going to make a little bit easier. I'll give you a month. I'll give you a month to get that one over there started. Hey make sure you guys subscribe to the channel. Ring the bell. Turn the notifications on. Like all the videos. Check out our other videos. We have some really cool stuff and we have some really really cool stuff coming and we just opened our Shopify account where we have some really cool merch. Shirts, hats, mugs, like all of it. 401 Forever shirts. Jeep hats. Stubby hats. Stubby shirts. It supports the channel. It helps us bring cool stuff to you and we really appreciate it. Thank you.