{"id":1324,"date":"2013-08-03T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2013-08-03T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T23:45:08","slug":"12-4-egt-probe-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/03\/12-4-egt-probe-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"12.4 EGT Probe Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"36\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 35 of 50 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/12-engine-propeller\/\">12 - Engine \/ Propeller<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Installing the EGT (Exhaust Gas Temperature) probes is pretty straightforward. Simply measure down 2&#8243; &#8211; 8&#8243; from the cylinder, drill an 1\/8&#8243; hole, insert the probe and tighten the clamp.<\/p>\n<p>Well, except for the center cylinder. That exhaust tube has a slip joint. And because the entire exhaust system is relatively low-profile, the probe on that cylinder was going to be where the two pieces overlapped.<\/p>\n<p>So first I marked and drilled the holes (I measured down 2&#8243;). Then I removed the exhaust assembly from both sides. On the center exhaust tube, I removed the inner part and drilled that hole out to 1\/4&#8243;. Then deburred all the holes, re-assembled and re-mounted the exhaust system.<\/p>\n<p>Then installed the probes for each cylinder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-03-IMG_20130803_164407_801a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1325\" title=\"2013-08-03 IMG_20130803_164407_801a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-03-IMG_20130803_164407_801a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-03-IMG_20130803_164420_187.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1326\" title=\"2013-08-03 IMG_20130803_164420_187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-03-IMG_20130803_164420_187-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"36\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 35 of 50 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/12-engine-propeller\/\">12 - Engine \/ Propeller<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Installing the EGT (Exhaust Gas Temperature) probes is pretty straightforward. Simply measure down 2&#8243; &#8211; 8&#8243; from the cylinder, drill an 1\/8&#8243; hole, insert the probe and tighten the clamp. Well, except for the center cylinder. That exhaust tube has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/03\/12-4-egt-probe-installation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"series":[36],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","series-12-engine-propeller"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}