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Shmoo

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  1. Yea but you’re talking MooneyMiles now. 200 is a lunch trip
  2. What is any pirep? Some anecdotal first hand info about a product. Like it’s not that easy to clean, hard to get a good seal, oil temp decrease, or didn’t notice any difference. Or maybe one of the crazed zealots around here did some particle testing! Unlikely but we have to ask. What I definitely wasn’t expecting was a narrow post about why pireps are tough to depend on. To be clear the paper filters are too organically made to say it has some size x. The stainless mesh has the benefit of being able to declare a specific size but I’ll agree that’s still not useful. Size vs rating isn’t the actual disconnect here. It’s rating type. Challenger declares an absolute rating because that’s what suits them. Tempest/Champion use a nominal (sae) rating because that’s what suits them. Neither uses the more useful (imo) beta rating. i agree that knowing the the challenger nominal rating would be interesting but I think the actually question is whether 34 micron ASTMF316 rating has any effect vs the 40 micron nominal rating in our engines? Our tolerances are such that some 100 micron particles might be much worse than many 30 micron particles. IIRC I heard Mx Lord Busch say something about with our oil composition and engine tolerances anything below 30 micron just doesn’t matter much to us. either way my post (like the op) was a request for more info because it’s hard to find anywhere else. We know these things are hard to compare, that doesn’t mean we don’t try. Fortunately @Mooneymite I finally found some decent usage info on The vans forum. And apparently the magnet is a PITA to clean and many people don’t save any time vs cutting conventional filters assuming you cut your own filter.
  3. I’m also interested in the challenger oil filter, but it seems difficult to get any pireps for it on any forum. Every pirep request post seems to get redirected with a similar filtering-explained response that while very well explained gets the filtering levels backwards. I wonder where this 20 microns tempest fiction started. maybe there is some 3rd party testing I don’t know about? Seems to me the tempest is 40 and challenger is 30 microns rated. Anyway, I’ll second the OP request for any actual pireps. Not meaning to call out @GeeBee, this tempest and champion being 20 microns rated seems to be a pretty widespread idea.
  4. Updated link for those like myself who weren't here in 2019 and are trying to understand what some people are still injecting into unrelated threads. https://www.mooneycaravan.com/web/Mooney/Pages/Safety/2019.asp
  5. @DF's M20J it's gone. He even left a super helpful followup about the stc process.
  6. First post after buying my J in August is sadly a diagnosis/parts buy... The outboard corner of my right side cowl flap is disconnected from the hinge assembly. It looks like one of the angle brackets (p/n 650177 here best seen on page 7) is broken at the bend. Can I just replace that bracket? Or do I need to order and replace more of the hinge assembly? I hadn't noticed any vibrations and the other hinge attachment points feel firm. Here's a really bad photo. I outlined the disconnected piece of metal that i think is p/n650177. Thanks for the help! Otherwise she's been great!
  7. Hey! I've had a J model in escrow for a few weeks. Will be based at OWB when/if it arrives and making regular trips LOU, LEX, DVK.
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