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That is correct. Lycoming and Continental require different approaches.

My Basic Med doc asked to see my anus, so I bent over spread my butt cheeks and said, "See! No contraband, no shivs!"

Ditto about the same time by Wet Wingologist. Great job, on time, on estimate, I think all in was about 13K

Swap probes see if it is the probe or the cylinder.

The breather tube is close to the top of the filler neck. The funnel will get you past that and seal with the filler hole to the case. When you are making your funnel, wrap electrical tape around the flex tube before inserting it funnel to create a seal so the Flex Seal does not leak out the bottom as it cures.

If you have ever been to Mackinac island, where cars are not allowed, you know what a pollution problem horses represent. Even though they have "poop patrols" and aprons behind the carriage horses the air constantly reeks of horse poop, which means there is a high coliform count in the air (read sickness). They are also a huge safety hazard. As we were going down to the ferry a piece of building insulation blew across the road, spooked the horses and as they backed in fear the wagon started to jack knife and tip over. My brother and I were hanging off the side like a couple sailors on a healing sailboat to keep the wagon upright. It is a reminder how dangerous life was in that time.

Actually fuel was the reason for horses going away. To create fuel for horses hay and silage had to be hauled into the city to the livery stables. Livery stables required large plots of land which as cities grew was too expensive and resulted in "high ramp fees" for horses and we have not even talked about water troughs. Many cities outlawed livery stables within the municipal confines because of health and economic reasons, just like leaded fuel now.

It is a CIA plot to tell you your Watergate is bugged.

Yep that is what I did with my PA-18 and I didn't even drill the hole. https://www.amazon.com/Craft-Brew-3827-Drilled-Stopper/dp/B00AFD9VSE/ref=sims_dp_d_dex_popular_subs_t3_v6_d_sccl_1_2/132-8704144-6508838?pd_rd_w=tmKGU&content-id=amzn1.sym.e94802a9-3b18-4cbd-b410-204abb9c6aed&pf_rd_p=e94802a9-3b18-4cbd-b410-204abb9c6aed&pf_rd_r=29QEM90YV3CKHWS2H31W&pd_rd_wg=jr460&pd_rd_r=dbe9616d-6459-4fa5-bfab-bfb91ca5d602&pd_rd_i=B00AFD9VSE&psc=1

Nobody buys them because nobody has to buy them. Necessity is the "mother of invention"?

I assure you a FADEC with a knock sensor is much better at it than you. It is the reason for instance you can burn any fuel in an automobile even if the manufacturer says otherwise. Yeah, you won't get the full performance of the engine design, but it demonstrates the capability of FADEC. The Big 2 in aircraft don't need new engines, they need new engine controls.

With a FADEC system you are not burning at 14.7 to 1. You are burning much leaner. Except when under severe load (like take-off) a FADEC is always burning lean side of peak. How lean? Just a tad rich of tripping the knock sensor.

Nope, 4200 RPM. Weighs 12K at cruise 3600 rpm, 18gph/engine.

I disagree. The engines in my boat is 7.3L (454 cid) MPI. Multi-port injection, roller cam and lifters. 5 years earlier the same engine without MPI produced 250 hp, this engine produces 310 hp. They don't make this engine anymore, why? Because the 6.7L engine produces 380hp on the same octane fuel Smaller, more power less fuel consumption. The current fuel injection on both Continental and Lycoming simply blasts fuel continuously. Rather than timing the injection with the cylinder like an MPI system. We could reduce our fuel consumption by 30% with a computerized injection system. Mixture control would be a thing of the past as the engines would always run lean. I am not blaming the manufacturers themselves, they have had to deal with a moribund FAA. But we now have pure electronic ignition STCs put forth by companies with a lot less engineering and administrative capability than the manufacturers. If they can do it, so should Lycoming and Continental...a long time ago. They don't have build new engines, they need to re-invent the spark and fuel delivery systems of existing engines and that could have been done long ago.

I didn't want to be precise, I was using the current vernacular. Bear Bryant was not really a bear either.

XM weather will give you the METAR for any airport and the FT.

I thought of this thread yesterday when I was enroute from KRAP (Rapid City) to KCOU (Columbia, MO). The forecast went bust as it was 1800z and T-storms were popping that were not supposed to pop until 2100Z. I wanted to file an IFR out of KCOU for my QT there. I had called Columbia Jet Center before leaving KRAP to arrange a QT but that went by the boards after the refueling truck ran out of fuel in the middle of fueling. So it was all for naught. I looked at some charts including index and skew-t and decided to play whack a mole going east towards ATL with the T-storms by going low (5000) staying in VMC and dodging the rain shafts with the aid of XM. XM was good....but not great. FIS-B was less than that. Real time NEXRAD would have been nice. If the fuel truck had not run out of fuel and I was able to file an IFR in the air with a full brief, even better.

I taxi'd by it and it looked good.

Ryan is that you plane down at Rapid fuel?

Yes. I was referring to Continentals. Lycomings are easy, get a holed rubber scientific flask stopper of the appropriate size, stick a piece of tubing through, put the stopper in the oil filler in place of the dip stick Here is my Continental solution: Use pourable flex seal to seize the tube in the funnel Funnel sits nicely and seals the filler bypassing the breather tube. Much easier than snaking up the breather line.

The problem with the breather tube is as said, it can separate. The problem with going in from the top is you need to bypass the breather tube which connects at the top of the oil filler neck. I took a small skinny funnel, I put the tube. down the funnel until it was flush with the exit of the funnel. I then filled the funnel with "Flex Seal" liquid rubber and let it sit overnight. Now the tube is fixed in the funnel. I remove the dipstick, stick the funnel in which bypasses the breather outlet and nearly connects to the oil tube below with a seal. The funnel nicely seals around the oil filler neck and the dry air gets down into the crank case. I will post a picture of my unit.

One thing you can do if you are using incandescent is to orient the filament vertical. That makes it less susceptible to breaking. The factory did this on the R models and up. It requires cutting a new orientation notch in the retaining ring. That said, do not discount the value of prop balance. It makes everything from avionics to fasteners last longer. I usually get 3-5 years out of a balance.

You won't feel vibration (barely) until about .04 ips and a prop balance will get you to .02 or .01 ips

Ford makes a silicon remover called Motorcraft Silicon Gasket Remover, part number ZC-30A available on Amazon. It works like no other. I use it to safely remove the glass globes on my outdoor lights that are RTV'd into place. I also use it on my boat to remove deck hardware and such. It takes about 24 hours to work, but work it does. That all said, what is pictured is no worse than most. I don't spare the silicon on my engine and in cruise my cylinders run in the low 300's. Don't let "pretty" be the enemy of cylinder life.

Cool cylinders are way more important than pretty RTV.