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Lycoming is 18-22 months back ordered for an engine. This is as of last week. If you want specifics you’re going to need to hammer the phone and talk to several shops to narrow it down. Cost and time will vary dramatically. Find your best combo. Whatever you do, do not under any circumstance read the old threads and consider Jewell Aviation Kennett, MO unless you want to overhaul it twice to fix their overhaul.

here’s the interpretation of the SB. Remove flapper. Cut aluminum in a circle. Rivet said circle onto AirBox. Case closed (pun intended). I just riveted an aluminum plate (spray painted white) on the back of the cowling hole until I had time to get the cowling glassed and painted later.

I’ve talked to James at Watson. Really liked what I heard and we were communicating some thru text which I really liked. Seemed like a standup guy. Only reason I didn’t use him is half my engine was already at Zephyr. I can say with certainty, the bigger shops (Zephyr) were INTERNALLY backlogged. I came up with several several solutions to the supply chain excuses and at the end of the day, they just told me it didn’t matter bc they still couldn’t jump their own que. To me, Watson seemed like a great shop that hadn’t gotten too big for its own good yet. Remember, the best mechanics were unknown at some point of their career. If you can catch a great small shop before they get published in aviation consumer, you get more of their time for an equally good product.

180 kts will get you down the road and out of busy airspace in a hurry.

Lightspeed>bose!! wow I didn’t even know auto muting was a selectable thing. This changes everything

Divco will expedite your case work for only like $2-300 extra. I tried this with my overhaul with Zephyr, but he said don’t bother bc it’ll just sit on the shelf at his shop rather than at theirs. You could use Jewell to expedite it, they just skip that step! (unless the find a crack with dye penetrant)

I just posted this thread. This company would be great for stuff like this.

Just came up on this company, they advertise very swift turn around. bending, laser cutting, anodizing, powder coating, 170 in-stock materials. Just send them a cad file, or draw it up and have them create the cad file. OPP needs. Pretty cool. https://sendcutsend.com

+1 for Cole. Busy busy, though.

@A64Pilot what size hangar do you have? And what kind of doors? mine is 50x40x12, insulated roof only. I could probably seal up the walls pretty decent but the rolling door would be tough. I also have a 1.5 ton AC unit, although it only runs to my little apartment building inside. Being on the GA coast, sure would be nice to regulate the humidity some.

@Will.iam using a large unit, has anyone ever thought of piping lines into the engine, cabin, tail, and wings? Seems like if there’s functionality inside the engine it could keep the bones dry, too. Yeah it’s not going to be air tight but it will be majority dry air, no?

The new g7 SR22 is now coming from the factory with earthx

I gotcha. I was confused bc the original post said he was losing a qt every 2 hours. That would be a big messy leak, if it wasn’t combined with excessive consumption. I just saw he was previously getting 10 hrs per quart. Idk. That’s great! I also struggle with lack of full time shop at my field so someone willing to come to you I agree is very helpful.

How did we go from potentially oil fouled spark plugs to leaning procedures? lol lead fouling and oil fouling are not the same thing, as you are all aware but I don't think I remember seeing anything about him having lead fouling problems.

Something you could do now, while it’s decowled, is pull the bottom spark plugs to see if they are oil soaked. It may well be the case that you’re both leaking oil and consuming it through passage by the rings. An oil coated plug would be a strong indicator of this. Even better if you have access to a boroscope. Jewell doesn’t have the same standard of overhauling cylinders as everybody else, it seems. As was the case for me, LOTS of oil consumption. He basically changes out the valve guides (maybe), laps the valve face, and runs a dingle berry stone on a handheld drill, and calls it overhauled. To my knowledge they do not own a proper barrel machining tool. Under those conditions, poor ring sealing would not be surprising. Check out the boroscope photos in my post where pools of oil were visible inside the combustion chamber. That was all 4 cylinders, not just one.