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Look up Hector price list and yokes at BAS salvage

will check on the firewall SB, replaced wastegate last year and SB is somewhere in the paperwork, as for overhaling that cylinder if you must, It cannot be bored since nitride hardened, can only be honed, as stated before availability of exhaust valve and guide will determine timing, I have heard good things about Gann aviation and Gibson cylinders, when in doubt call Jimmy Garrison at GmaxAmerican, think he still has a personal Bravo and might know where a cylinder can be found, welcome aboard!

If you are dropping the exhaust and it has more than 1000h and most of it was put on by a previous owner overhauling that exhaust might be an excellent idea for the reasons stated above. There is an SB installing an additional firewall baffle above the wastegate and behind the turbo transition Y, make sure that is installed

I am ordering a cylinder today so I have it and never need it, 3 months is awesome!

If the installed base is 7500 airplanes and each is worth $100k that makes an installed base worth $750M. What percentage of the base does it take to fix the problem? 1%? 2%? The financials indicate that a solution will be found that keeps the fleet in the air

Before you balance prop make sure the blade play in the hub is within limits, track the blade tips to make sure blades are not bent

Clean thoroughly with mineral spirits, spray with dye penetrant developer, run engine to get 150 dF oil temp, shut down and look for oil trail

Brian is worth every penny!

excellent!

during annual in March we discovered a small elevator bellcrank that caused excessive play between the elevator halves, small handmade part riveted together from three sheet metal plates, bushing, bearing the whole thing about 4" long. As a quick and legal fix we replaced the loose hylock fastenters with monel rivets. Consensus was that this part would be $2500 to replace if it were a Beechcraft part. The Mooney part had a lead time of 13 weeks and a price of $800. When I got the part I was amazed, Mooney had re-engineered the part to be integrally milled in one piece. No doubt they lost money on that part. Soo, parts prices will go up because they have to. About the same time I was approached by an MSC wondering if I was ready to fund parts production at Mooney with a fixed amount per year, lots of questions, nothing ever came of it and now Lasar stepped in. Problem still remains, parts production needs to be funded to build up inventory, by how much? probably by the amount of 6 months of parts sales. So, instead of moping, who is ready to step in? 300 owners at $3000 a pop makes $900k, enough the get things moving funds to be released to Lasar and/or Mooney for inventory buildup by a board of the the 3 largest donors? The whole thing blows up, guess what fonds perdu as the French say. In the end gotta pay the piper! Whoever is interested in being part of the solution, please pm me.

BAS parted a Bravo out starting about 4 weeks ago, maybe they still have the entire link, otherwise owner produced part, any machine shop with a lathe can make it, worth a try to coax the material specification out of LASAR or a MSC

numbers look realistic, think for longevity max TIT is 1600 and max CHT is 400, as log as these numbers are not exceeded the engine can be run at 78% power in cruise, think the peak TIT numbers can be sustainably achieved at the bottom of the power chart, let's say below 60% power for long range cruise, with that in mind the engine is not that much of a primadonna, just my personal opinion after running it for about 650h over7 years

in to the salvage places I would call each and every Mooney service center, somebody has that motor sitting around or knows how to repair it

The 201 windshield is riveted flush to my best recollection, not sure about round head screws on bottom of wing, my airplane does not have them, there are people that can add up such drag counts, never got that far, if the cowl closure is done next simple thing are flap gap and aileron gap seals, should get you 1-2 kt, see how that feels, windshield is time consuming and better done by somebody who has done a lot of them, tie down rings can be replaced with Lasar combo jack points

I had all the mods available in 99 including the low profile gear doors, one piece belly, 201 windshield, the whole works, hindsight the flap hinge covers did not help, everything else did, most of the stuff is still on the Lasar website, did not have scimitar prop, after it was all done airplane got painted which probably helped, the E with the short body is the fastest 4 banger, least amount of wetted surface, controls more responsive than the mid body, that might be the determining factor whether to soup up or not soup up if the airframe and the engine are solid

sounds like the bird is doing just fine, I had a G-model in the late 90s, stock it would do about 135 kt TAS, with all the speed mods it did about 155 Kt TAS, everything but powerflow exhaust and Lopresti cowl. The best bang for the buck are the Lasar cowl closure and the flap gap seals. Call Lasar and see if they currently make them, can't imagine not making the flap gap seals. It all really depends how attached you are to the current airframe, buying a modded airplane is certainly less expensive than doing it yourself, however no airplane flies as well as the one you have souped up yourself, the journey may be the destination

pre-purchase should be more thorough than an annual, focus is different though and directed to identifying show stoppers, if you find one early, stop the pre-buy, if things keep looking promising complete the prebuy and have it signed off as an annual after you bought the airplane, this is your one and only chance to get to the bottom of the story without having to pay for somebody else's sins, annual on a short body is typically 25-30h, pay for the prebuy, selling price then gets negotiated in view of the findings, if no deal you are much better prepared for the next pre-buy, an E built new today would probably cost in excess of $500k, the maintenance responsibility you are getting into is commensurate with that amount, caveat emptor = buyer beware

like the big toggle mag switches, had an electroair installed once upon a time, with those small black mag switches it is hard to tell if they are on or off, I stayed with the key switch because I would have left the mag switches on one day for sure, key in hand or on glareshield = mag off

yes, as stated before check for corrosion on steel tubes under side windows, on main spar, on stub spar, nose gear leg and truss tend to get dinged when airplane is jackknived, think max allowable dent is 1/32" I keep fingers crossed!

Think the vac line does not go to the Moritz but to a pressure transducer in the pilot footwell

considering the alternatives, maybe the swamp cooler from arctic air or B-cool is not that bad, inexpensive, pre-cools in hangar off ship battery connected to battery minder, top off ice before you pull out, topped off B-cool works for about 45 min until most of ice is melted, if you need more, use two of them, most FBOs have ice machine, stays home in winter, I use mine 3-4x per year, have TKS so permanent installation is really not an option, FL and TX may be a different story

whoever is interested in trials and tribulations send me a PM with their phone #

Yes, long story, uninstalled the system and got a refund

As stated before these are for sale commercially, sometimes a lightly used set comes for sale when an airplane is sold, I have a 25 year old Bruces canopy cover that held up quite well and that I used for travel, a fair amount of know how is is in the choice of the fabric, the liner and the sewing, you may be an expert with a swing machine, then maybe start by getting a 60" roll of paper and make templates

had dinner in NYC last Friday night, did not feel the usual exuberance and vibe in my favorite steak house, maybe just a quiet evening, maybe things are not going through the roof as we speak, add to that uncertainty about parts supply, avgas supply, airplane sales prices are off covid / post covid highs, drop is almost imperceivable, like houses 1-2 % is listed for sale total about 200 Mooneys on controller / tradeaplane, has not changed much