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Thank you rich, the painted in place is something I did not consider. With regards to checking out through the access plate, it is about 14 inches back from the leading edge, as evidenced by 14 inches of cuts on my forearm as measured from my fingertips. I tried looked at it through fiber optic bore scope and holding i phone in hand, with little luck. I'll give it another go tomorrow with the paint in place in mind. Still I wonder why the service manual picture no way represents the actual aircraft. Jer

It is probably painted in place. You can remove the cover plate under the wing and look up in there and see how it is put together. Don’t worry about adjustment. There will be enough witness marks to get it back the same way.

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Best advice I have for you is to take the interior pieces out put them in a box and ship them to Hector at Aero Comfort. Even though they are in rough shape they will come back repaired and covered in Ultraleather looking much better than new.

I just overlay the weather on the 1st page of the map the way I want it oriented. That way the Nexrad shows up in relation to the magenta course. The dedicated weather page doesn't show course.

@Jackk I have to say I'm sorry that your opinion is so narrow as to exclude others' approaches to life, and view them as inferior. No point in trying to argue with that arrogance. I will say I am quite capable with many of the hands-on skills you seem to value above all else. I retired early debt free, and never made anywhere near $2M/year (or I'd own a PC-12). Yet, I have no issue paying others for things I am perfectly capable of doing myself because I value my time greatly for things I WANT to do. An aviation example is that I change my own oil and filter as it's easy and quick. OTOH, I have A&P/IA friends that would supervise me performing most of the work for my annuals, yet I choose to pay for them as I don't want to invest that kind of time (30-40 hours), regardless of how many dollars it would save me. I prefer to do other things with that time. To denigrate those with 'non calloused hands', or those that just don't want a project, seems incredibly elitist to me. As my high school biology teacher said to our class many years ago, "The only thing you cannot buy more of is time". None of us knows how much we are given; spend it wisely.

Folks: My aircraft is a 1989, S/N 3079. The switch function was intermittent and then eventually total failure. I want to take the unit out, inspect it and probably replace the microswitch. I have the maintenance manual (see photo) which only use the verbiage: "Install two attach screws". I don't know if they are from inside the wing or outside on the leading edge. The manual shows two configurations, and my serial number points to figure 27-21A. The 4 outboard screws seem to match the pattern shown, however the inside is not visually the same. The manual shows two screws inboard, which don't exist on my aircraft (see photo). Figure 27-21A indicates 2 of the 4 outboard screws are for adjustment, so I loosened the other two, expecting the vane assembly to loosen up. It did not. So I tightened those, loosened the two "adjustment" screws (why not), and the vane assembly still not loose. I loosened all 4, still not freeing the vane assembly. None of the figures identify the "two attach screws". Can anyone offer any direction on this problem? Thank you. Jerry

The philosophy in Dr. Suess's "Oh, the places you'll go!" comes to mind after hearing about Tyler's trip and seeing those pictures!

Nah The reason we have tons of people who will never outright own their home and are debt slaves is because they value their time like demigods, yet their paycheck says 2025 blue collar, ain’t no shame in being blue collar, just plan and work accordingly As I said before, if you ain’t north of 2M per year NET income, roll your damn sleeves up. I ain’t that rich, but putting in the work and elbow grease I got two planes, cars, property, outright own everything The plane in question here, I haven’t seen anything that said it was a good deal or a bad deal, but like those clickbait YouTube videos, sprinkle a little dust and a touch of surface rust and the non calloused hands throw in the flag

What gall they have to charge 16 large for a clamp that my friends and I use on auto turbos that cost 60 bucks for very good ones and 100 bucks for extremely good ones! On high performance exhaust systems we use high quality interlocking V bands that cost 35 bucks in stainless steel that look way better and function the same. Sorry you had to go through that

It would be unusual for seals to leak after a year. They often go decades without problems. Post some pics of the leak.

It’ll spin up APU, start a electric starter jet or turbo prop, now the mighty 6 banger conti/lyc might be too much

Think it's a PN3A or a KP3 (different manufacturers). Frank Crawford should be able to look it up.

Done and will add more

Yeah, I hear you. It's been a bloodbath.

Hi!! What is the part number of the bearing in the Elevator and Rudder? KP3 rings a bell. Search function is poor and it’s not in the IPC. Thanks, -Matt

Sounds marginal, but it's worth a shot.

And where was it leaking from the first time you had it fixed?

I have had these in my J-model for some time now, and they are holding up well. I have made a few of these for other people. (I should have sanded these more before painting them, but they were a Beta test.) The eyeball vents came from Aircraft Spruce and are aluminum and plastic. They are not cheap, but very good quality. The size and shape of the fixture was made to accommodate these: I used carbon-fiber infused ABS. An acetone-based paint sticks really well and actually strengthens the print. They are attached with the same sized hardware you remove from the old vent covers, so you can put them in place without removing the overhead panel. I also designed another version with a lip that does have to have the overhead panel removed. PM me if you are interested.

Where is it leaking from?

Current location of plane: San Diego, CA. Logs available upon request.

If you push menu there don’t you get a map setup option? If so, id look through that. Often the settings for north/track depend on what size map you select. The G 1000 I use is on a different airplane and a little newer though, so certainly could be different.

Actually, we are. We need lab techs who are familiar with molecular biology. They need to work in the Research Triangle area. With the recent cuts in research spending, we have lots to choose from.

Wasn’t talking a charger The average GPU I see on the ramp is north of 1000amps, just make sure you’re not a 14VDC electric system as most are 28 only.

When I’m looking for sounds like that I use a three-quarter inch 3 foot long piece of A/C hose. It helps put my ear in places I can’t get to. You can also remove the alternator/generator belt, tie it back and retest.