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Sensenich Propeller Service in Gainesville Georgia. Dan Landis will treat you right! Great service and great prices, very honest people at SPS !

It is well inside the borders of the People's Republik of Kalifornia... and you are one of those "rich airplane owners"...

price change to $500.

Tempest, mostly for the magnet, partly for the price, and a little bit to stick it to Champion for all the spark plug BS over the last few years.

A Stormscope or Strikefinder is crucial for summertime flying. Too many people rely on XM radar data which is not current enough for real weather avoidance. XM lightning data is virtually useless since only active equipment can keep you from getting into the worst cells. I have a Strikefinder in my plane, and fly others with Stormscopes. Support is better and much cheaper for the Strikefinder, although the Stormscope advantage is that the WX500 can display on your MFD or panel mount GPS where the Strikefinder cannot.

Mooney space is not safe for work!

it's a DG, not an AI, not required for backup

Low time Sigmatek vacuum directional gyro available. 350 hrs SNEW in 2011. Great shape, nice & quiet bearings. It's coming out for an Aspen install this week. New cost $1100 from Spruce.$500, with insured shipping included, in proper instrument shipping box to the US or Canada. PM for further info

The 337 process is defined by the data available. AC43-13 provides acceptable data for field approvals of major alterations & repairs. If you happen to use OEM parts and install the battery in the same location as a later model, you would provide that information. If there was a factory service bulletin to relocate the battery, then you don't need a 337 at all. A drawing is not necessary when referencing appropriate paragraphs and illustrations in AC43-13. You will calculate a new weight and balance, and modify the equipment list to show the new station of the battery. You will have to include Instructions for Continued Airworthiness in Block 8. The sixteen items of the ICA address any unique maintenance or inspection methods necessary due to the alteration.

Funny thing is of the city wants to close the airport due to "noise and congestion and dangerous accidents", how much more noise and congestion and accidents will be created by filling the current HUGE open space, with thousands of people in houses, condos, and the like? DUH. The People's Republik of Kalifornia is pretty much a lost cause. Total bankruptcy is just on the horizon, around 2025-2030, when all the gubmint employees start drawing those ridiculously high and mostly unfunded pensions.

You don't need an STC. You can relocate batteries using data from AC43.13 as your reference material required in Block 8 on a 337 form.

The Apollo / Garmin GX series GPS are great units but as they age the displays start to fail. Garmin discontinued the displays a few years ago, but now an engineer is looking for interest to make a new production run of them. UPS-AT APOLLO DISPLAY GLASS • PARTS AVAILABLE • Making one time 100 pieces run of new display glass sandwich for GX-50, 55, 60, 65. Any interest? • Contact Keith Peshak , Broker - located Georgetown, TX USA • Telephone: 512-636-0851 . • Posted October 20, 2016 • WWW.BARNSTORMERS.COM

Hartzell usually charges $1000 for the permission letter to move an STC'd propeller from one airplane to another. They prefer to sell new propellers, and the used propeller is worthless without it, so they keep the transfer cost high.

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The sensor is installed in the bottom of the right magneto on Continental engines, and it's common for the wires to be damaged where they enter the sensor. There is a connection on the aft engine baffle, which uses a fairly cheesy AMP connector with tin plated terminals. If you are lucky, this connector can be cleaned, and preserved with Stabilant 22. If not, check the magneto and be prepared to pay $1k for a new tach sensor.

The counter wheel inside the tach is slipping on the shaft. It's a 15 minute fix with a soldering iron once the tach is out of the plane. The hardest part is knowing how to open the case and re-crimp the bezel after.

S4LN-21 left mag, with impulse coupling, and S4LN-20 right mag without coupling. These model numbers will also have a specific part number that defines the features such as degrees of lag in the coupling, what type of vents are employed, and a few other details. You will purchase them by a part number such as 10-51360-37 which is found in the Lycoming parts manual for the engine. When converting from Slick to Bendix, this requires a p-lead connection kit 10-52305 for each lead, unless you get the newest style "SC" magneto which will accept the same p-lead connection as the Slick. Also requires an M2364 Unison ignition harness for 5/8-24 UREM38E spark plugs since the Slick harness is not compatible.

Slick seems to be unable to rectify their quality issues, and I recommend replacing their mags with Bendix when it's time for service. I do 500 hour inspections on lots of magnetos and in the past ten years, it's been a rare event that a Slick mag makes 500 hours without requiring a near overhaul. Their parts simply don't last. Bendix on the other hand, will go 1500-2500 hours before requiring many parts. At each 500 hour, it's usually just lubrication, point adjustment, and occasionally a carbon brush on a Bendix mag. And it doesn't matter whether the Slick replacement parts are from them, or Kelly. None of them last due to the inherent poor design of the lightweight Slick mag. That was one of their early selling points, that it was significantly lighter than Bendix. But reliable electrical equipment must have a certain mass in order to perform well. Comparison of Bendix features with Slick "features: Bendix has a larger diameter distributor block, but Slick reduced their distributor block size, increasing the crossfire potential; Bendix uses a large distributor gear finger pressed onto the gear shaft to transmit spark energy to the block, but Slick uses a small copper tang restrained by a groove in the distributor gear, and the tang often comes loose causing random misfires. Slick reduced the point cam size, increased their point wear; Slick points are half the size of Bendix points. Bendix uses a shaft mounted metal drive gear, Slick uses a splined plastic gear that increases drive failures, gear wobble, and teeth shearing, Bendix uses larger rotating magnet to produce 30-40% more spark energy, especially at low rpm, and uses a better design impulse coupling for reliable starting.

the powerflow system is a huge benefit to any Mooney, 180 or 200 HP. Better power, better fuel economy, and it gets rid of the CO problem that occurs with the OEM muffler.

not unless the piston rings are stuck to the piston. Which will happen after a few hundred hours of poor combustion.

low cylinder firing pressure due to weak ignition systems produces excessive ring blow by, and poor oil control. Oil control rings depend not only on ring tension but on cylinder pressure to force the ring against the wall. Anytime you have low compression, whether due to worn parts or low firing pressure, you will have high oil consumption.

Excess resistance in plugs weakens the spark, and eventually will crossfire inside the magneto. Neither is good. The best ignition system is Bendix magnetos with Tempest fine wire plugs. The worst is Champion plugs made prior to February 2014, with Slick (now Champion) magnetos made after 2001.

synthetic oils tend to last longer and have higher shear strength, which would be beneficial to the adapter design. If a starter doesn't release, and thereby holds the spring under tension, then you would prefer a slippery oil to prevent heat damage to the shaft. A straight mineral oil would be worse.

It's not a starter problem. The shaft had to have been made undersize by mistake since it is not worn in the manner that is caused by a starter failing to release. It does have a C24ST5 starter which releases the spring instantly, as does the C24ST3 predecessor to this starter. The only lightweight starter with a slow release is the Iskra starter that appeared in 2006 and was replaced by the Skytec designs in 2011. But there are still many Iskra starters in service.

if you have Champion spark plugs manufactured prior to February 2014, high internal resistance produces a weak spark, which in turn contributes to high oil consumption. And to excess magneto wear, which compounds the problem. Especially if your engine has Slick magnetos.