And this is a big surprise to me. I have bought and engine and prop well before I was ready to install it. John Saurer is retiring his bird to the Front Range Air Museum and sold me the engine and prop. Only 300 hours on the engine and about 100 on the prop! It came with all the installation goodies. This is truly a "Firewall Back" package. Mostly since John provided pictures of all the pieces as they were removed from his bird. All I have to do is put them back together just like he had them and it's ready to fire up!!

John was also gracious enough to deliver all this stuff to my "shop" that we affectionately call Velo North. John even helped unload everything. Good thing too since I had just injured my knee.

Thanks to Bob and John everything is in the shop, which is once again very crowded. Just a bit of organization and rearranging will make that better soon.

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