Joe Larussa

Anyone ever clean out the inside of their air box? I opened the ram air door to look at the seal and it looks kind of grungy inside.

That did cross my mind !

Would it be wrong to temporarily seal it off with 200 mph tape until the parts are available?

Care to share how you did it?

Anyone replace their ram air door seal?

Lol! A little of my soul died inside over this.

I guess it’s still making some metal, just no where near as much as they thought.

Okay, here's a new one. I just received an email telling me they had mixed my sample up with someone else! Amended report looks good.

The plane has been flown at least an hour a week plus a few long trips. Never sat more than two weeks without being flown, except for two years ago when I had it painted. That was about 6 weeks. Doing a borescope and opening rocker covers now.

Good idea!

The 27 hours on the oil is from the second oil change for the year. Actually had over 60 hours for the year, which isn't a lot. How many hours were on your engine when you pulled the cylinder?

So we are going start with the borescope and remove rocker covers.

Would you do as recommended and fly and resample before starting to remove parts? Not going to hold you to it! Lol

Engine was overhauled 2016 and yesterdays oil sample came back with elevated metals and small shiny particles in the filter. Shop says fly and resample in 30 hours. What would you do? My stomach is sick. Oil report.pdf

My center fuel bladder on the right side leaks once in a while. Have had the plane 5 years and this has happened roughly three times. I did go in and tighten all the interconnects before I had the plane painted. It's in annual and it started leaking again. Any ideas? I would really hate to start taking panels off and jack up the paint if not necessary. Thanks

I would start with what’s easiest. The probe I would think?

Just to follow up. Detached the fuel pressure hose from the pressure sensor and as far I could tell, looks like there was a little fuel lube goop in there. Cleaned it all up and everything appears to be back to normal.

Today I opened up and checked the servo screen as well as the screen aft the electric fuel pump for any serial numbers. Clean as a whistle, not one spec of anything.

Normal pressure is around 23 when I hit the boost for priming. Over 25 when on take off roll. I was thinking a clog somewhere? It did finally come back to normal.

So yesterday I went to start my engine. As always, I flip my EI digital fuel gauge to pressure as I prime. Normally I see around 23 PSI, but today it's only around 19. I start the engine to see what happens. Starts normal, but fuel pressure still low. I figure let's run it up and see what happens. At run up it's now around 20, which is still in operating range, but not what I usually see. I turn on the boost pump and it hits around 22, so I decide I'll take off and be prepared to abort if I don't like what I see. Pressure increases to 23 so I take off. Flew a downwind departure and watched it increase to 24.4, so I turned off the boost on downwind ready to turn base if it quit. After that all was back to normal. Any thoughts? EI gauge was installed about two years ago. Thanks in advance!

Yeah, I used the wax all degreaser. Worked really well.

Well I finally ordered up and tried waterless washing the Mooney. Used Wash Wax all, and I would say I’m pretty happy with the results. Cleaned the belly with the degreaser, then went back over it with the wash wax all. The mop kit made it fairly quick and easy, although some spots really need the old fashion microfiber cloth. I always hated the water spots I would get under the wings if I didn’t dry throughly.

Send it to Dan at Lasar. Turned mine around in a few days. Easy to remove and reinstall. Detents where they should be and no leaks. Was around 300.00 if I remember correctly.

I have not called JPI. I guess I should. All indications are normal then it spikes and goes to red, then probe failure indication. Cylinder head temp rock solid. I can clear it out on the 830 and it’s fine for a while.

The readings on the 830 starting going crazy, then failed probe comes up on the screen. I had this happen on my stock exhaust as well as my Powerflow. Changing the probe immediately fixes it for about 150 hours