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I bought the specific gravity tester. But then just added water and called it good.

If you pull the engine through by hand when cold do any of the cylinders feel "soft"

So Burnt valve would be a valve sticking open? Letting the hot compression gases escape? So would maybe also be a sticking valve?

I am not sure the family quote makes sense. They found the corrosion made it so it would not make contact until after it was cleaned. So not working was cause of corrosion on the terminals. I would think the no fuel in the tanks was more of an issue.

Exhaust valves coked. Ream all Exhaust valves with .494 Ream. Rope trick, http://www.caa.si/fileadmin/user_upload/pageuploads/AD-NOTE/AD-2006/093_sb_SB388C.pdf

How many hours on the cylinders?

I vote mags. Possibly spark harness. What does the fuel pressure leak down check show?

This has some awesome lines. "How about you mister" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAYRv8T5jEg

Can someone explain what is meant by "burnt exhaust valve" and "failing exhaust valve"? Is this the guide is getting worn? or the valve guide is getting coked and becoming stuck?

I bought 4 or 6 yards of automotive carpet for a $130 dollars or so and used the old carpet as a pattern. I rough cut it with some overage. Then went to the plane with a pair of scissors and custom cut it. I used the 2 inch velcro black and and the 1 inch white in long strips. Seems to be holding. No backing I bought the edging but not sure I will put it on. One plane interior shop said they did not have the pattern for the my model plane so I had to pull it out send it off and wait then reinstall. It was faster to just do it myself. Dove Grey. Passed the burn test with flying colors. I have enough left over to do another complete set if it ever gets thrashed.

I took my 80 year old Dad in a 172 and now the Mooney. Knees not so strong or good. So show them where the handles are. Step on the seat, then the floor. Sit on the wing outside the door then spin around. You may have to help move the legs around. For getting out you may have to give a good butt push to crouch and then butt scooch off the wing. I put the flaps down. Then just stand up. Your emergency egress is hindered. I would probably crawl across and then pull out since you would have more leverage. The 172 was a bit easier. It was more sit and pull the legs up. Probably need a cushion to see over the panel. My dad is 5'9" and would have done better with one. He got his pilots license in the 60s then gave it up for us kids. He was having a great time buzzing around.

My DPE was a flight test engineer for Navion. He was talking about how they may have loaded too many sand bags in the back. How else you find out right? He asked how do you think I got back down? I said just tell me. He said as straight and level the whole way with no abrupt changes or anything. I said that make alot of sense. If it will fly keep it flying smoothly and level.

http://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-studies/Documents/SS1101.pdf The hard part is going to be the injuries with shoulder harness vs. without. In the motorcycle world there is a diagram of a head and where the most injuries occur. Caused me to go to a full face helmet.

Autopsy data from individual aviation crashes have long been used in aviation safety research in the form of case reports and case series studies. Injuries sustained from aviation crashes, however, have not been well documented at a national level. This study examines the injury patterns for persons who died in aviation crashes in the United States and the implications for preventive strategies. Death certificate data for all aviation-related fatalities for the years 1980 (n = 1,543) and 1990 (n = 1.011) were obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics. The immediate cause of death and all injury diagnoses recorded on the death certificates were analyzed in relation to year of injury, crash category, and type of victim. Despite a 34% reduction in the number of aviation-related fatalities between 1980 and 1990, injury patterns were fairly stable. Multiple injuries were listed as the immediate cause of death in 42% of the fatalities, followed by head injury (22%); internal injury of thorax, abdomen, or pelvis (12%); burns (4%); and drowning (3%). Head injuries were most common among children. The majority (86%) died at the scene or were dead on arrival at the hospital. Eighteen percent of the victims were reported to have sustained a single injury, with head injury being the cause of death in nearly a third of these fatalities. Blunt injuries resulting from deceleration forces, in particular head injury, are still the most important hazard threatening occupants' survival in aviation crashes. To further reduce aviation-related fatalities requires more effective restraint systems and other improvements in aircraft design.

The purpose of this study was to analyze patterns of injuries sustained by pilots involved in fatal general aviation (GA) airplane accidents. Detailed information on the pattern and nature of injuries was retrieved from the Federal Aviation Administration’s autopsy database for pilots involved in fatal GA airplane accidents from 1996 to 1999. A review of 559 autopsies revealed that blunt trauma was the primary cause of death in 86.0% (N=481) of the autopsies. The most commonly occurring bony injuries were fracture of the ribs (72.3%), skull (55.1%), facial bones (49.4%), tibia (37.9%) and pelvis (36.0%). Common organ injuries included laceration of the liver (48.1%), lung (37.6%) heart (35.6%), and spleen (30.1%), and hemorrhage of the brain (33.3%) and lung (32.9%). A fractured larynx was observed in 14.7% of the cases, a finding that has not been reported in literature until now. It was observed that individuals who sustained brain hemorrhage were also more likely to have fractures of the facial bones rather than skull fractures.

I have a engine driven robotow that was gifted to me. The engine did not work so $90.00 for a Harbor Freight engine replacement and it was good to go. There is pretty good uphill into the hanger and it took 3 people to make it by hand. A powered electric chair with some mods would make a pretty good plane mover http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pr1mo-24v-motors-with-3-00-4-wheels-pair-left-and-right-EV-Power-Chair-Jazzy-/161757955218?hash=item25a9868492:g:mZQAAOSw~gRVnXur

If you add up all the speed mods you could do to a F or an E it will be supersonic by the time you are done.

My understanding is that FAA finds lots of shoulder harness equipped planes with injuries to the left side of the head. I have thought of keeping a bike helmet in the plane incase of off field landings. Or maybe all landings and takeoffs.

I think gasoline will melt a milk jug after a while. At least the older ones it would. The fuel servo screen should be checked at annual and it is very fine screen

There are two versions. The quick disconnect like you have and the always attached. Laser sent me the always attached when I needed the quick disconnect. Since my retainer was gone, I just spun one out of alum on the lathe. Given the lighter weight than steel it was probably good for a 2 knot increase. Here is the thread for how to recreate the retainer. http://mooneyspace.com/topic/15189-control-swivels-or-ball-joint-linkage/#comment-226387 If you want a fancy stainless one. McMaster Car has them http://www.mcmaster.com/#6058k72/=10fo151 The weight penalty could be offset by highly polishing them for another 1-2 knot increase.

There could be a solenoid on the pilot firewall. Jumper the right side (battery to the small terminal (energize)) If the solenoid is good the starter will turn. If bad then Take some heavy gauge wire and jumper across the terminals. Could be the starter switch which energizes the solenoid. There is a remount SB for that solenoid

B&C alternators would be an option

There are also some fresh air vents on either side. If you get some nice sideways Texas rain at the correct angle it could come in. I would never think that rain could get in the static ports. Sideways Texas rain did.

"expensive" and "500 dollah a month" were voted down as candidate names

There is always that uncle at the christmas party. All his guitars are named. I am not much into naming things. Anyways the plane got named last night. Al is the new name of the plane. As in Al Mooney.