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  1. Yetti
    Has anyone ever seen a rusty cam lobe? Why can you take a V8 that has been sitting for 20 years and fire it up and no cam failure?
  2. Yetti
    oh and wait till you pull all the screws out for an annual inspection
  3. Yetti
    Kind of looks like a clutch arrangement on the motor output shaft. In other news I would say it is bad form to tie wires to the PC leveler tubing (although one pic looks like it is a factory tie job) The tubing gets hard, vibration would cause it to break faster. According to Brittian the port wing tubing is the one that goes first
  4. Yetti
    So C mooney? For starter. Mags or switch. or mag wiring. The left mag gets retarded via the second wire and the right gets grounded. When were the mags last rebuilt? If it was a while ago they can be timed right and the air gap still be off due to wear. If they are over / near 500 hours get them rebuilt. Are you running the landing light while in Cruise? If so go LED about they same price as a switch.
  5. Yetti
    My understanding is the B & C has bearings and the Sky Tech has bushings
  6. Yetti
    There are a couple of ADs about the engines around the 500 mark. Basically lack of lube for the valve guide. weather they coke or not is depending on how the engine is run. http://egaa.home.mindspring.com/engine1.htm
  7. Yetti
    The gauges and such will be pegged high if they short to ground.
  8. Yetti
    Check the AD log and then run one for the plane/engine and see if they match up. The Mooney 100 hour check list has a bunch more information than the "performed annual IAW moony annual inspection" entry In my case it was "replaced oil pump gears". Sadly there were 3 various versions of oil pump gears Lycomig was trying out the same time the engine was being rebuilt...
  9. Yetti
    Pics 1 and 2 need a reskin. The way it is creased and then to bend it back will break if not severely weaken that panel. The wings are integral structural units. You don't want a weak link anywhere. It probably also popped a seam or two in your gas tanks so they need to be repaired. The suggestion to pound it out is a poor one. Not an engineer, but I can weld and have broken lots of stuff in my time.
  10. Yetti
    flaps what are those?
  11. Yetti
    There are consumer versions. Mrs. Yetti went and bought one of these http://www.silhouetteamerica.com/ The program is pretty easy to bring in the .jpg These are warm ups to redo the Mooney Bird on the vert stabilizer. Need to see if there are any rivets back there. Have not figured out the the vinyl over rivets. Basically an old x-y plotter with a knife in it. She has made stencils out of cardstock
  12. Yetti
    Fun with the vinyl cutter
  13. Yetti
    I got a call from FF once with an anxious voice and beeping in the background. He suggested climb. With the climb rate of a Mooney being that better than most, Yes it exposes the underbelly, but unless the person is really trying to hit you, it exposes lots of plane for them to see and avoid. My SOP is to climb.
  14. Yetti
    I am seeing severe clear for Texas. Which weather is looking iffy?
  15. Yetti
    Mine is as good as the guy holding the yoke.
  16. Yetti
    Kind of makes you want to put on matching Mooney shirts, fly to various Texas airport restaurants and talk in hushed voices about new "programs"
  17. Yetti
    And make sure your ignition key is one of one or two keys and not on a large ring with lots of other keys
  18. Yetti
    Most have been mentioned. 1. Key switch could be grounding out 2. Check P leads 3. Check Fuel screens. Gascolator and at the fuel servo 4. Do mechanical fuel pump check 5. bad spark plug harness 6. Magnetos 7. Fouled/bad plug
  19. Yetti
    On the 75F one is below the battery access panel. Kind of in the middle of the panel. It is a smallish button. The other is on the pilots wing below the wing root about 4 inches out from the fuselage. There was enough water in the static port that we had to open the battery access panel. remove the tubing nut at the drain and blow it out. Cover one static port then the other. Use your mouth to blow on the tubing. Then do the drain till no more water comes out.
  20. Yetti
    Sheet of gasket material and a small ball peen hammer...Set of hole punches If you are in a pinch. sometimes works better than the fancy machine cut
  21. Yetti
    the 20- and 21- serial numbers are newer year models. Older planes are just numbers. While learning to sew, I have been thinking about how easy it would be to replicated Turn Left Turn right signals to the Accutrac II from the Android tablet using an Arunduo autopilot board or a Raspberry PI board. http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/running-an-autopilot-on-android
  22. Yetti
    Tasty burgers. Went there a couple of weeks ago
  23. Yetti
    So thinking of things on the long flight to California. What about a universal mounting block or UMB for short. Flat block of alum that clamps to the center post with thumb screws and has two 1/4-20 tapped holes on the front side to mount visors, GPS, Cup holders, Etc. You are responsible for your own compass swing.
  24. Yetti
    I want to know what the V speed is for blowing out a fire. Kind of like what they did in Memphis Bell
  25. Yetti
    OK just imagining this playing out. You have a fire and the first thing you are going to do is reach for your Ipad and wait for the check lists to load? My checklist would be this mnemonic SSD Shut S**T Down. Starting with fuel, then the master We will sort the rest out from there....
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