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The factory pedal extension are fairy cheap from my understanding, I would give LASAR a call and see what they have to say before I started machining my own. The one for $749 on eBay seems out of line

Looking at 2 heat exchangers (heater cores) as well but with a slight twist, it would be a closed loop which should help the water and ice in the main unit last just a little longer. Also thinking about a plenum on the hat rack with multiple vents to help direct the airflow and or plumb it into the overhead vents already there. With a closed loop I would need a second pump to drain the water from the ice chest. My wish list also includes a multiple speed fan and a small key fob size remote control.

Glad you enjoyed it, it definitely a different view

Think that's the way I'll go, I can buy a lot of ice for $600.00 bucks. I have looked on the net and some get pretty ingenious on designs

That’s a better option if they offer it in 12 VDC, easier to duct both the cold air and return into the cabin and put the unit in the tail?

While waiting on Dan (IA) to come to the hangar for lunch I unpacked the Zero-Breeze and turned it on (sitting on the workbench), it was pretty warm in the hangar but the little unit did start blowing coldish air, from around 2 ft away you could still feel it. After lunch I laid a piece of carpet across the front seats and placed the AC unit facing the co-pilot yoke, the exhaust was ran out the storm window and sealed with towel, I took the vent thermometer out of the Cessna and zip-tied it to the yoke, the thermometer stabilized at 105 F with in about 15 minutes. The moment of truth was coming up, I opened the cabin door and turned it on, I checked it at 3 minutes and no change, cheeked it at 10 minutes and still no change, I checked the exhaust and it was blowing hot air so I opened the cabin door and it was blowing coldish air. I let it run for an hour and it came down maybe 2 degrees, which was very disappointing. I might try and come up with some makeshift ducting and see how it works blowing thru the overhead vents and sit in the plane, but doubt it will do much better other than it will be blowing on me. Luckily the Mooney climbs good so it doesn’t take long to get to drier and cooler air. ALL in all I don't think it's going to work, and at $800.00 for the unit and battery pack it just not worth the money

Both planes are back in the air, IA ended up placing an additional "Retainer-Grease Seal" (shim) under the nut due to years of wear, fixed it right up. below is a crude drawing to show the location of the retainer Not exactly how I wanted to spend the last 10 days, but both planes have freshly painted wheels, which was needed and ALL new bearings....

not a big fan of them in a plane either, will use it for testing and if I decide to keep it it will be hardwired to the ships power

When I first ran across them, they hadn't even started manufacturing yet. we'll see how it goes

Well all the bearings came in Friday so I spent the afternoon installing races, greasing bearings and getting the freshly painted wheels assembled, made this tool out of a 2.5" to 1" PVC bushing (0.025" under from race O.D.) to press the new races in the wheels, small end is for the nose wheel, large end is for the mains Went back out saturday to re-install wheels, Mooney was 1st and wasn't that bad, a fan pointing at me helped a bunch. Opened the other hangar to let cool (kinda) down, poor ole Cessna looked like it had been parked in a bad neighbor hood sitting there on blocks. Nose wheel went right on and got the tail weight off to sit back on the ground. went to install the LH main and all was good till I went to cotter the nut, it was screwing down past the hole in the axle, sat it back on the block and tried the RH main, same issue, not sure what is going there but it sure is strange. When the wheels where removed everything was tagged as far as left, right, inboard, outboard..etc, IA drove up as I was locking up, he's stumped as well, will look at it in the morning. Sure glad I painted the wheels on both planes, they were looking pretty bad

Did some searching on MS for the Zero-Breeze portable AC unit, only found 2 mentions of it in a badly hijacked thread on GTN 750 Audible Alerts. I ran across the Zero-Breeze over a year ago and had forgot all about it until yesterday. While at airport a buddy stopped by and was telling me he was having Dan (our IA) install an Arctic Air system in his 182 so later that afternoon I went by to check on the progress. The Arctic Air is a big unit and weights in at 50+lbs and draws 45 amps on his 24 vdc system (pretty taxing), while talking to him he mentioned he had purchased a Zero-Breeze unit and tried it, while it does blow cold air it just wasn’t enough to cool the 182 down to be comfortable in a South Texas summer (not sure what he is expecting). An hour later he stopped by and dropped off the Zero-Breeze and said try it out in the Mooney and if I liked it he would cut me a deal, I was closing the hangar as he pulled up so the unit is setting on the table for a little testing on Monday afternoon. Not wanting to modify anything yet I plan on placing the unit outside and duct the cold air in through the storm window (sealed with foam) and see how it works setting in the hangar. I will sit a thermometer in the plane before hand and see what kind of a temperature drop I get over say 30 minutes or so. My hopes aren’t real high on it cooling down the cabin but if it cools it down some I might spend some time plumbing the duct work in. My plan is to plumb the exhaust from the unit to the small opening in the top of the baggage compartment allowing it to vent out the top of the aircraft, as far as the cold stuff I’ll direct it into one of the air vents for the rear passengers and turn the other rear vent off along with the scoop on top of the aircraft, this should allow the cold air to be directed by the 2 front vents which are only inches away from my head, hopefully it will make a difference, pirep, taxi and flight test to follow. here's a link to their website Zero-Breeze

The insulation also cuts down on the harmonics of the skins. The closed cell foam doesn't hold moister like the original fiberglass, I did the roll your own on the closed cell, walls and headliner, 1/2" all the way around. Most of the noise comes thru the firewall, as far as temps go me E is hot in the summer and cold in the winter

Personally as much preventative maintenance wheel bearing get they should last forever with any brand of grease, if they are cleaned, inspected, repacked and not set too tight at every annual.

Wasn't there an aftermarket set of gear doors availability, might check your paperwork. If they are aftermarket you might have to replace both with OEM

Yep, it was time, past time actually

South Padre Island has a firework display every Friday & Saturday night from April thru October, they shoot them off from a barge anchored several hundred yards from shore, nice show from the ground..... So so from the air

My IA asked why I didn't get the standard Timken bearings at the autoparts store, truth be told I did look at them but no one had the mains in a Timken or they would have been in there....

No, carpet was from Airtex and I got the replacement plastics from Vantage Plane Plastics

should be the aluminum wheel well, me 65 E was bare aluminum and my new carpet kit came with the pieces to wrap it but I went with new plastics....looks better to me

The wheel well?...between the pilot and co-pilot rudder pedals

Both the Mooney and Cessna parts catalog list the cups & cones with out the "-20629"...so did Mooney and Cessna use just a standard bearing & race back then?

I think he is talking about the nose gear wheel well?

Some good lube would have been nice for the purchase as well, (8) Mains and (4) Nose Cups & Cones was just north of a grand. I was real tempted to go Timken Automotive at about half that but went FAA/PMA, I've been using Valvoline Synthetic for years, its worked really well until we had that Biblical rain last week

A thin line might be overkill, between both planes there were a few I would have used but seeing how the majority were bad it just made since to replace them all

And yes that is a crankshaft in the background, Lycoming 0-235 the cases were split, everything cleaned flushed and re-pickled. Not mine was being stored for a buddy