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Yes, I do really want to know!! While Mooney design is old, I have found almost nothing is designed for the sake of expediency. I'm sure there is a reason why this cylinder #4 down pipe end up with two slip joint and one of its joint has a clamp!! @Clarence

The picture is not from my Mooney. I found it on Google image. My Mooney has a similar clamp. My IA friend saw the clamp and commented that it look like a patch job. A search on Google found the exhaust clamp is indeed from the factory.

I doubt it would make a difference. Mfg will simply absort the profit. Look what happen in the 90s when congress passed the bill to limit aircraft mfg liability. The price of the aircraft did not go down. Instead, it grow at even faster pace.

Does any one know why some Mooney's exhaust come with one additional slip joint on cylinder number 4? If this additional joint on your Mooney, you'll have a clamp similar to the one shown in the picture below.

I'll search for for the youtube video. However, I'm be doing this under "owner produced parts". So, creativity will be limited by the almighty FARAIM.

@RLCarter Great Idea!!

@carusoam Did you send me anything? I check my bell icon and there is nothing. I did a bit more reading this afternoon. Both acrylic or polycarbonate will work for this purpose, but acrylic has better light transmission quality. Once the "holes" are cut and the face is painted black, CNC laser would work nicely to "burn" away the black paint to create the graphic and text. The only obstacle now is the bevel cut around the gauge to reflect the light away from pilot view. That will require CNC router with additional tilt axis. I may just have to finish it off with dremel sanding wheels.

That would be the plan B. The plastic panel cover is a less precise way of going about it.

That's exact the overlay I'm planning to create.

That's correct. It's same concept as the piece of clear polycarbonate attached to the navigational night on the wind tip. As long as I can get a good template, I can CNC "overlay" with light piping capability pretty easily. Thanks for the help.

Panel lights are circle in red.

@carusoam I know you are trying to help The main purpose of this "overlay" is to to reflect the light from bulb to the gauge. I recall they are at about 1/4" thick. With this "overlay", the light from the panel simply shin into pilot's eyes. There is a separate plastic sheet on top of this overlay for labeling. I think I'm going to take a better picture of the remaining portion of the "overlay".

You call it plastic. I call it plexiglass. I still have a a section of it above the row of switches. The plexiglass is painted black on the pilot facing side. Dimple is milled into back side where the penal light bulbs are. The opening around the gauges are cut at an angle to allow the plexigalss to reflect the light on the gauges.

Yes, I'm trying to recreate the original plastic panel overlay. With out it, the panel light simply shine directly into my eyes. You can see I still have portion of the original overlay on my panel. @siu1526 I already have the plastic panel shown in the link. Frankly I don't care for the 80s look offer by those plastic panel.

Hi, Does any one have this panel in your parts collection? I want to recreate the original plexiglass panel cover and would much rather not have to disassemble my panel to use it as the template.

Checkout this old Piper promotion video. Notice no one is wear headset. I wonder when did in-cabin intercom became a common feature? For that matter, does any one still fly without a headset?

I got you beat!! I tow a spare Mooney with a spare pilot whenever I leave my home airport. In case if both Mooney or I (the pilot) is not able to carry on the mission.

Gear up off airport landing in '83. Previously in Texas. Sales reported in Oct 2019.... There is more to the story.

Any suggestions on how to get the grease into the actuator ball screw?

@Andy95W You are messing me up here. Now shock cooling is out the door, you throw in another issue? Care to share why having airspeed driving the prop is bad?

My M20E looks like this. It sure look like it's screwed in.

I'm the OP and I can tell you I have never try to take off with landing trim and flap. All it took was watching someone else does it once to remember not to ever do that. On the other hand, I did try to descent in a 2006 Cesnna with AP altitude hold engaged. It took me few seconds to figure out why my aircraft was pitching nose up at cruising altitude while falling 500 feet per minute.

@Hank At what point do you push the prop and mixture full forward? When you reach TPA? The last time I point the nose over, My E was doing about 190 mph coming down from 10,000'. It doesn't seem right to be going that fast. I promptly pull the MP back 1" at a time to keep speed under 160 mph. It's going to take a bit to get use to the speed.

#1 came from a Mooney specific web site which I can no longer find. #2 came from two CFIs for my transition training into Mooney. One of the CFI has extensive experience with Mooney. I'll search for shock cooling again, but it seem most people I talk to still think it's a thing. @gsxrpilot So, do you simply point the nose down at desired decent rate and only reduce MP to keep airplane from going over the max airframe speed?

Metropolitan Area planning Agency, no.... Michigan Academy of Physician Assistants, no... Mooney Aircraft Pilots Association, got it!! I'll check them out. Thanks