Engineer-Joe posted:Hump Yard Mike posted:Question for the group, why/how does a tack tape go bad? It seems to be in fairly clean area of the engine.
thanks
Excess smoke oil can drip onto it for example. I've seen grease on them too. On the homemade paper tapes, they can lose their black color with age if exposed.
I'm pretty sure this is what happened. It feels very greasy/oily near the flywheel/tach tape and most likely the smoker was overfilled and spilled out all over it while it was in the box. It does smell like smoke oil on the tape... You can see in the pic it looks drenched. I sure hope this is all it is.
