Fritz1

B-cool or arctic air ice box, little John pee bottle, when you have an appointment on Monday fly there on Sunday, always leave yourself at least one way out, when it does not look right, don't fly, tomorrow is another day,

Corrosion is the only real show stopper, at annual take off the innermost, most rearward wing inspection panel, take borescope and look at stub spar, this is the most sensitive spot, I fog that compartment with anti corrosion oil at every annual, my airplane has TKS, the other neuralgic corrosion spot is on the roll cage tubes under the windows, water gets in through dead window sealant, take cabin side panels off and inspect, when side panels are off might as well replace all the dead glass wool insulation with soundex, if you find that you are particular to Mooneys, newer Bravos and Ovations with less than mid time engine and good avionics typically go for about $300k, most of the work that lies ahead of you is then done already, however in the olden days when some people built their own radios, the moniker was: no radio plays as well as the one you built yourself

Bringing a more than 20 year old airplane up to speed can take 2-3 years, after you have replaced everything that moves you know what is in there. This makes sense if the airframe is solid, no corrosion. In the US there still is a solid infrastructure that supports Mooneys. In Europe this may be a different story. I think the determining factors really are how confident you are working on your airplane under supervision of an A&P IA and how confident you are dealing with the shops available. The Bravo is unique through its turbo Lycoming engine and the extremely solid airframe. This comes to play in mountainous terrain or when going east in the USA with a tailwind. The answer may become evident from test flying an alternative aircraft and and talking to owners of such aircraft.

Right side as everybody said, extremely difficult to get out, have to take off hoses, a lot of shops never inspect it, coarse screen catches pieces larger than 1/16", good idea to take it out if you have never inspected it, mentally prepare yourself for what you might find

There are large demographic and economical forces at play that wiggle small airplanes around like a dog wiggling its tail. One way for the OP to get ahead is to get personally involved, do dirty and boring work, find parts, nudge the schedule, buy pizza, generally become a guy that is good to have around, the shop has to have the feeling that the OP fixes more problems than he causes, profitability is higher with the OP doing stuff than with the OP not involved, by doing helper work you replace a guy that costs the shop let's say $30/h and is billed out at let's say $110/h. OP has to find a way to balance that out. Once the balance is established it is beneficial for everybody, once the shop trusts you they let you comb through there parts storage on weekends because they know you pay on Monday and bring pizza. This works for handy people, the shop then has to explain to Joe why Phil is allowed to work on his own airplane while Joe is not allowed to enter the premises. The concierge service means in the last consequence that the OP owns and operates a maintenance shop, beware what you wish for, once upon a time I knew a guy in Vienna Austria who owned a Citation, unhappy with the performance of the avionics shop he bought it and started to manage it as a hobby, think he got personal pleasure out of it, RAF trained fighter pilot and successful business guy. Key to successful small pane maintenance is to find the best setup you can and then support, manage, and subsidize it as needed and you will achieve amazing things, I keep fingers crossed....

ask yourself what has been touched besides the propeller when the balancing was done, then be methodical, spark, fuel, air, whatever is going on may not just have one single cause, cleaning the injectors is easy, do a flow test, put each injector into a measuring cup, run boost pump for a couple of seconds compare contents of cups, look for intake leaks, how is the fuel pressure from the mechanical pump, test all the spark plugs

boron nitride dry film spray, interesting, feels good to be in touch with people who know stuff!

in order to clean the bushings it is best to take the two bolts out that hold them in the panel, then wiggle and clean with contact cleaner over and over again, the ball can wear out and get wedged which causes the binding, most of the time cleaning the ball and the shaft solves the problem, taking the yoke shafts out is a lot of work, cleaning is easy by comparison, lubing with any oil attracts dirt, robbing Peter to Pay Paul, anybody tried dry graphite lube?

To my best recollection the can says that you can also put it on your dog, helps against ticks and helps injuries heal better

Think Ballistol has been around for 100 years for cleaning guns that have steel and wood parts, not sure what it does to Aluminum and paint, Triflo is the light oil of choice according to Mooney service manual, inexpensive, widely available, found that it even removes lead bromide exhaust stain from paint

I did the pilot side of the cabin last year with 1/2" Soundex from Spruce, had the left side panels out chasing an air leak around the WEMAC valve, overall 1/2" felt like a good compromise between insulation, noise attenuation and weight, think Spruce sold that stuff in 4 ft increments, as said before make paper templates and then ballpark footage, maybe call LASAR, OASIS or Maxwell, they will know the total footage needed and may have material sitting there in bulk

Starting with mixture cutoff will eventually resolve a flooded engine, everybody has their own way of doing things, I start the Bravo with mixture rich, 4-5 seconds priming injection at full throttle which actuates the boost pump, pull throttle to idle, 1.5 turns on the throttle, if she does not fire after one revolution, hit the boost pump and she will fire, idle at 1000, I rather underprime than overprime, quick shot with the boost pump into the cranking engine resolves any underpriming

like the homemade ac, thought about making one, key to success is to pack in as much ice as you can, pre-cool in hangar, top off ice, 1h run time is plenty for taxi and climb, turn off as soon as the ambient air gets cooler and you might have some left for landing,

B-cool is the best bang for the buck, pack with large ice blocks, fill the gaps with ice cubes, use in hangar to precool airplane running off battery minder, top off ice, pull out airplane and get in, runs for about 1h, cooling power is about 2000 BTU, thus 1/3 of a window unit, really helps during long taxi, real ac is 100x more expensive, I use mine 2x or 3x per year, but then it makes a big difference, the unit weighs about 30 lb loaded, pulls about 10A at 12V, filling in the ice is a hassle, but beats sweating in 100F heat when holding for takeoff

I had a sticky trim switch in the KFC225 a couple of weeks ago, the left half that energizes the trim servo clutch did not zero by itself any more, easy to check, wiggle the trim switch up and down after the error message comes up, a stuck AP disengage switch or a stuck CWS switch may cause that error, too, not familiar with the GFC700 though