Oil & Fuel Kama Significant Oil Leak

[Bob Rooks]

Rich,
I do it just the way it's shown in the Wiki pic except if there are more that two I will daisy-chain them. I have a couple of pairs of the pliers. Safety wiring is commonplace on Cat and EMD engines.

Safety wire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Something I wasn't familiar with is safety wire tabs - neat!:thumbsup:

 

[Turbo]

That safety wire is a good idea, Bob! I'm in the process of doing this repair to my Jinma as we speak and I'll have to think about doing that.

When doing a safety wire job, is there a "best practice" method for doing it? I've only done it on my old desert racing bikes and I just drilled the bolt heads and ran a wire through them from one to the next, in a fashion where the bolt, were it to loosen, would have to stretch the wire so to speak. Is this a good way to do it or is there a better way? All the bolts with one wire or do them in pairs or other multiples? What's the best wire - in the past I used nichrome wire because it is what I had that was tough and not prone to rust. Something better?

Thanks for helping out,

Rich

Rich try this

Safety wire, proper safety wire technique for using safety wire on ultralights, and ultralight aircraft.

Safety Wire Tools from Aircraft Spruce

 

[Brad_Blazer]

HF sells the cheap ones.
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