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Ahh, excellent, @1980Mooney found the threads that should help.

Yes, theres a thread here on MS. Let’s see if we can find it. The seat backs are pinned at the outside bottom if i recall and are pretty tight. The seat bottom at least on mine had a thin metal bar wrapped in the seat upholstery pulled underneath it and held by a sharp metal piece under the back of the seat that was sort of accessible from the baggage door.

I did consider that. A steel screw is stronger than one of those rivets.

is there a guide on removing the seats? Bolts? Pins? etc?

The mechanism is ~55 years old and wasn’t too robust to begin with. Youll need to remove the seats and the sidewall panels. The mechanism likely needs cleaning and lubed, but it should be obvious with that opened up. I did this to my F once. It frustrating getting the rear seats in and out but not terribly bad.

I have looked up Eclectic. Interesting name. The “middle of nowhere” certainly has its advantages.

Our T hangars are actually slightly cheaper than that, utilities included. Of course, for the money all you get is a gravel floor with an asphalt parking pad and a light bulb on the ceiling, but it does its job of keeping the weather out. Suffice it to say we are in quite a rural area. I have very little experience with central LA, but if it's like ours, the anemic local economy is only part of the story. We basically maintain the city's hangars for them and in return the city basically leaves us alone to maintain and fly our airplanes as we wish. I read stories about airports banning maintenance in the hangar or washing airplanes with a hose and it just boggles my mind...

https://us.rs-online.com/product/honeywell/1ch1-6/71145168/?srsltid=AfmBOorYGDk7FJzgHUhzXpf6yjzSKdtNGm9QSxJzeYfDC9eN5ugDF6Ry those aren’t cheap, but these guys appear to have a discount vs some others…

Not sure where to begin. My searches haven't really explained where I should start. My right rear seat reclines...... always. It doesn't matter where i move the lever there is no change. Heck the left seat will not move no matter where i move the lever either. So i have a left permanent no recline and a right permanent recline. Where on earth do i begin trying to solve this problem? its a 1975 mooney 20F Exec 21

"Life is cheaper in the country!!" -- a local car dealer's ad. Look up Eclectic, AL, on the map sometime . . . .

Maybe the guys from Lasar will buy BAS and raise their prices, too, since clearly they're not high enough.

On mine the oil pressure will go past the high green limit for a little while at takeoff if the oil isn't fully warmed up, but it does that during a go-around, too, if the throttle has been back for a while.

On mine I replaced them with screws and self-locking nuts.

I just have my girlfriend do it for me.....it's her JOB....

Let's see, Gatlinburg in the mountains, close to several major cities, beaches, etc. or ... Pineville, Louisiana. Geez, I wonder why the rent's so cheap there?

Hi All, On my aux setup page, I cannot alter the display format for lat and long. I think this might be one of the "minor variations" of G1000 behavior that is plane-specific (e.g. like into which COM and NAV slots the MFD info pages will load frequencies). Curious if anyone can confirm and, if you go into "configuration mode" with the G1000 on startup, is this alterable? I am not near the plane now but I think it's stuck on "decimal minutes" format. Current solution is to try and set all other devices I am using to match. Thanks! DK

This article was in today's AOPA SmartBrief email. I must be missing something here, but they're talking about lowering the monthly hangar lease rate from $150/mo to $75/mo, UTILITIES INCLUDED. And the tenants are saying that's in line with other local airports. Have I just been living in the wrong places? https://www.kalb.com/2025/10/14/pineville-city-council-discuss-new-airport-hangar-rates-pafford-expansion/

Hmm, the motor mounts were just replaced in the past 2 years (before I owned it). That, coupled with a log entry of a dynamic balance makes me think the previous owner had similar vibration issues.

The standard for the big radials was always 40 deg C oil temp and 100 deg C CHT. Seems reasonable for any engine.

A review of NTSB reports between 1982 and 2020 identified 31 accidents attributed to CO poisoning (see the appendix for a list of these accidents). The data show that 77% of those accidents were fatal and led to 42 fatalities and 4 serious injuries. CO detectors were not found or reported in 30 of those accident reports. Although these accidents can be more prevalent in colder months when pilots are more likely to use aircraft heating systems, accidents related to CO poisoning happen throughout the year; of the 31 accidents between 1982 and 2020, 6 occurred between June and August. The FAA’s service difficulty report (SDR) database also showed at least 45 incidents involving a defect, leak, or failure in engine exhaust systems between 1993 and 2020. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AIR2201.pdf (same reference as @midlifeflyer above) The big question is how many could have been prevented with a properly functioning CO detector? Probably darn near every one. Its a low volume, but something that we could make a significant impact with I think. When I upload my engine monitor data to Savvy, it will give me "High CHT" notification even when it was just a CHT probe connection that was erratic, and I get FEVA exhaust valve reports regularly looking at exhaust valve health. Would be super cool if it would also monitor CO levels and use machine learning to look for trends that this is worsening/changing, or notify if CO levels went over a specific threshold. Unfortunately this requires integration with engine monitors at current. HOWEVER, if the CO detector manufacturers would make an inexpensive monitor that has ability to download/store data...then upload or review that...that would pretty slick!

Guys - thanks so much for all the information - this is gold! Super easy just dumping out the left side. Many thanks!

+1 on the motor mounts. I had vibration problems and dynamically balanced the prop with not noticable improvement. I then replaced the motor mounts and it is not smooth as butter.

That sounds like the best plan, but I would rather avoid another external antenna.

My M20K POH says 100 min oil temp for take off. I normally wait for 100 before run up. But my engine warms pretty quickly. If yours is taking a while, you might want to check the operation of your Vernatherm. My CAP-10 (AEIO-360) says off the peg before run up.