Collins R-388 PTO Fixed! -- Thanks

[Larry Wolken]

Hi Gang --

Thanks to all of you who were kind enough to respond for my request for a
new PTO.  The advice was unanimous: try to fix it... the replacement you get
may be worse than the one you've got.  It took most of the afternoon, but I
was able to remove it and track down the problem.  There are two parts to
the PTO.  The two tubes sit on a very small chasis that's outboard to the
actual PTO.  This thing is a bear to get around in the first time you open
one up -- very tight quarters.  They used what Howard Mills calls cigar
caps, which are small brown tubulars (I assume paper) that look about like
two watt carbon resistors.

While the caps in the subchasis tested good I replaced them anyway but still
no dice.  When I opened up the PTO cylinder I found another of these
"cigars" inside.  It was wide open -- dead as a doornail.  There was room
inside the cylinder to replace it with an orange drop and away we go...

Great group of sage, generous guys.  Keep up the good work.

73
Larry Wolken N3OJD

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