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Novus is another great option and it’s cheaper if you buy larger quantities on Amazon. You can put it in a small pump bottle or refill their pump bottle. Novus 1 for washing, 2 and 3 for trying to remove scratches. For convenience and ease of use, plexus in its original spray can is tough to beat.

Yes, but it has actually worked out great for me. The previous owner (a EE by the way), had a nice J with a turbo-normalized engine that his family had for a long time. Well he “upgraded” to an SR22T without measuring the hangar doors or checking the wingspan. He sold the J, but when he got the new bird home he realized it didn’t fit! I was in a crappy rented/shared hangar but with 40’ doors. We traded. I got a great price to buy his nice, private hanger, and he got my crappy one! A year later, the owner of the crappy one kicked out the renters and turned it into a shop! Meanwhile, I own mine and the hanger prices have almost doubled! Now that I think about it, the 38’ hanger has been terrific for my situation!

Mines in a 38’ wide hangar. Why the heck they built a whole row (several actually) of really nice 38’ wide hangars, I’ll never know. However, with good painted wheel lines and careful ground ops, it’s safe.

If it was loose enough to cause that, there should be blue stains everywhere around it. Probably outside the cowling too. I suspect you’ll continue to notice fluctuations in fuel pressure from the electronic gages.

The integration is nice. All the boxes sharing all the info. If you split garmin/jpi you have to be really careful about what is shared and how. Different setup, but I have a jpi930 with dual g5s. In order to get a TAS display I need to add Garmin’s temp probe even though I have a temp probe for the jpi and it shares the data as far as my gps (430w). A fully integrated system has definite benefits. Know what your getting.

I agree with that, but it could also be a little dribble grabbed by the crazy airflow through there. The airflow is strong and hard to predict. Either way, be care With the threads. There’s lyc guidelines on tightening the injectors and getting the bleed aligned properly.

I’m not gonna say it’s causing the issue, but I’d tighten the injector to make the bleed hole face up which puts the letter on the flat facing down. That’s how lyc says it should be anyway. Usually doesn’t make a huge difference, but Here’s my theory… pointing backwards, it’s subject to lower pressure as the airflow goes around it and under certain conditions, some little fuel is sucked out and sprayed up there. I didn’t say it was a great theory, but what does it cost to rotate the injector ~90 degrees?

The bleed hole is opposite the letter stamped on the flat. I can just make out the letter, so bleed hole is pointing backward towards cylinder 4…

Curious, who was going to take your current prop in trade? Hartzel?

Id probably try removing, cleaning and reinstalling the injector first as it’s hard to “break” them. Where’s the bleed hole positioned with the correct torque?

Ha! I pushed over a little once when I knew my wso was peeing. I was looking in the mirror to see his expression. Was hilarious. Luckily he couldn’t reach me to hit me, but unluckily, he threw some stuff at me including the (thankfully sealed) piddle pack.

My wife successfully used a lady piddle pack in the Mooney. Once. The second time she “missed” and I ended up removing, cleaning and drying the entire interior to make sure we didn’t corrode away the whole damn thing.

Yeah I figured it would work most times fine. My parents are 525nm and I do it a lot in my F with 50 gallon fuel load most times. Last weekend we did it with ~15-20kts headwind though and I had to run Lop to make it with ~12 gallons from 55. Loaded to 50 gallons on the way home with a tw and landed with 17. The winds make a huge difference.

Just a minor thought as it looks great and fills most of your needs… you have the smaller fuel tanks on a C, so 500 miles will generally require full fuel tanks and may or may not be possible with a one hour reserve depending upon your winds and fuel burn. Most Cs aren’t too happy lean of peak, so don’t count on that. It will work fine often, but not always.

So I figured out your perspective, and I can see that the prop governor is below the mag, not above it. My throttle cable does not have a clamp between the firewall and the bottom of the engine sump where it changes from the plastic sheathing to the metal pushrod. It is not touching the governor, though, the way it bends coming out of the firewall, keeps it along side, the copilot foot, well, and about an inch away from the governor.

Ill try to get a picture of mine as I’m on this way to the airport anyway. I’m having a hard time getting the perspective of your picture though… is that an A1A with the prop gov above the right mag? Mine is a 68F.

So do you already have other pressurized lines leading to the injectors and fuel pump? That does seem pretty weird either way…

And that’s why I got a mechanical engineering degree….

Which one is being traded?

That interior is awesome.

Did he do your glareshield and headliner too? Hows the HL look?

I fly a G1000 PA-46 for work and I only buy the one year subscription of Navdata. The Navdata is the only thing you legally need in the gps. You don’t need terrain, obstacles, safetaxi, etc. Personally I like that stuff better on my ipad, so I get the upgraded FF with your position on charts for approach and taxi. You can also get your Jepp there if you want. If the terrain and/or obstacles in the airplane are very old, possibly they are worth updating, however they don’t change much. So personally, I do the cheapest garmin Navdata option and do all the charts on ipad. I don’t really find the charts helpful on the mfd although safe taxi can be if you like that better than on the ipad. I think nav data is like ~$500 for all north america.

I know this isn’t always popular, but it seems reasonable to check with airpower and see how much the wait and cost is on a factory rebuilt. If you want to be fair, compare that to overhauling your engine AND all the other components since they come with the factory rebuilt.

The Lance numbers are even worse when you figure maintenance!

When mine was stepped on by a ~200lb person, it deflected pretty much full down. I’m not saying what causes the cracks at the attach points, but we probably shouldn’t step on the flaps, overspeed them or otherwise mistreat them if we want to avoid future cracking at a known weakness.