RoundTwo

My “no scratch solution” for my J is paracord support across the top of the engine and duct tape covering all offending edges and corners, front and rear of the cowl. I thread a medium zip tie through the third (I think) camloc hole and attach the paracord to both sides with slip knots and hook it behind the lifting loop to keep it in place. Tape over the aluminum flange and nut plates at the front to protect the spinner and also thoroughly cover the aluminum channel and the first camloc at the rear to protect the fuselage. “Pop” the cowl loose from the fuselage and alternate slacking up the left and right sides to lower it to safety. Reverse the procedure to install. Since I started doing this, I haven’t made any new marks. It takes some practice, but it’s not hard to get the hang of it.

Yeah, it’s hit or miss, getting in. If we’re flying to Florida in the morning, fuhgeddaboudit. No way you’re getting cleared through. I have a much better success rate mid to late afternoon.

I’ve found them at $112.

### <UPDATE> ### When I returned to the hangar to pull off the broken lens, I noticed that the bulb had ruptured and that’s probably what killed the lens. Then I went to look at the other tip, and yep, both bulb and lens are broken there as well. So now, inquiring minds want to know what chain of events can lead to both bulbs rupturing. I’m going to review engine data and hopefully I can find out if it happened in flight. Losing 70 watts of load should be easy to find in the data. Maybe it’s time for a LED swap, but I’ve still got the old two-pin bulbs and I seem to recall the LED conversion isn’t straightforward based on the posts I’ve read. ### </UPDATE> ### Putting the bird away today, I noticed the lens on the rear-facing anticollision light is all busted up. The Mooney part # is 68-4250066-30 from page 57-20-00 in the IPC. Does anyone have one of these you no longer need? Thanks!

Stop it! Just stop it!

I asked Don Maxwell about that trim around the stabilizer and the boarding step. Don said that it is possible to wiggle the new stuff in there. It’s not a simple job, but it is possible.

Closing this out, after speaking with Hartzell several times, this is a known conflict on the IO-360 and they are not concerned about wearing through the boot. I’ve placed some silicone tape between the corner of the fuel fitting and the boot as well as compressing the boot against the starter body to lessen the contact pressure as much as possible. I’ll check it well during annual next April to ensure everything is still OK. I sure wish there wasn’t any contact, but it is what it is.

Great pirep.

It’s only 45 minutes away from me. Maybe I need to go take some pictures and post them here about 1 per week, just to mess with y’all.

Here’s Skytec’s fitment guide. J’s get either 149 NL for 12v andNL/EC for 24v.

My old starter is the 16 pound Prestolite.

It’s brand new.

That’s a definite possibility.

I’ll be making that call on Monday.

It looks like they have changed where the wire comes out, moving it aft about 3/8”. In your picture, the central line of the wire is almost at the mating line between the motor case and the rear cap. On mine, it is definitely moved further aft, which gets it very close to the elbow coming out of the fuel servo.

Here are some more pictures to show context.

That’s the fuel line running from the top of the servo up to the divider, or spider.

For those that have installed the 149 NL/EC on a J, did you encounter this interference and if so, how did you get around it?

For those of that have installed a Skytec 149NL/EC on a J, did you encounter this issue, and if so, how did you rectify it?

Are you comfortable getting into Elk River NC06? I took a load into them yesterday and they’re hurting bad. The image below was as of Saturday, October 5th.

Dude, you’re such a rookie! Yank out that front seat and load it up with a case or two of water. Getting in is a bit of a challenge, but I’m sure you can do it.

Cheese!

I’m leaving RMG tomorrow with a load headed to HKY and then on to JQF to help with distribution. I do appreciate the $0.75 for avgas which brings it down to ONLY $7.00 at JQF.

125 is my target.

I agree with @Marc_B’s conclusion that a bit more development would yield approximately 33% more functional lighting by moving the light outboard and uncovering the 2 inboard LEDs. Oh well, still better than melted lenses.