OneSaltyItalian

Hi all, Just to circle back on this - I was able to find the bulkhead and the spinner from Hartzell. After about 6-8 weeks of waiting for it to be made... It showed up and it works great! I think it gets better air around and into my intakes because it has a way better gap between the spinner/bulkhead combo and the actual cowling, which makes me obviously feel a lot better from our previous conversation and feedback about how close it was.

Perfect. I'll call Hartzell this afternoon and see what they have to say. Appreciate you for the assistance

Thanks! Now my search starts for that C-3532-22... Any luck if you have an extra laying around? Lol

I'm sorry for the question, but do you know the legality of this since the STC requires the different part number? I'll ask my IA his thoughts next week, he's currently on vacation. My A&P (friend) and I will be pulling the prop this weekend and also are going to put in a new alternator belt since we're there already... lol.

I saw that in the other post as well - absolutely agree

That would be amazing. Please let me know

Hello friends, My A&P and I went to replace my starter today following a failed start attempt last week. After diagnosing and decided we needed to remove, I found the following on our close inspection (pictures). From my research, it looks like it's the J model unobtanium 680031-027. Dog picture for size reference :P. Does anyone have any leads on this part or know of ways to alleviate my (even longer now) grounded plane? Shop that will fix it? Any and all ideas are appreciated. Oh, it also split the shroud in that location in half. It still connects via the screw hole, but it does not connect together. Prop and other information: Propeller Model: HC-C2YK-1BF https://aeroresourcesinc.com/proj98-ci/WebContent/uploads/ARI 1955-78_M20J_Spinner_Instructions.pdf I saw the other thread about this, but figured I would make a new one since I have not seen anything about this recently.

Just saw this, but I recently did mine with Evan at Corporate Air in Vero Beach (KVRB). Fit me in the same week I called and let me do the entire process with him. 10/10, I recommend him! Took us just shy of 3 hours with many minutes of conversation and just hanging out/talking. Overall a wonderful experience at a great airport.

Nice! We had a kicking tailwind the other day as well. Made it from Kansas to south Florida in 6.7. Coming home was an 8.1... But that's another story, lol.

Yep! No more SOS. One less part to mess with when we removed that. You're correct, it was expensive... But I haven't looked back a second since upgrading to the SureFly. I made a long post about my troubles and how we installed it, if you're interested, it's on my profile.

I'm going to be honest, I had a pretty similar problem the first year I owned my plane. I decided I did not want to be left somewhere on a random field due to this silliness and the age-old SOS. So, I replaced the left mag with a SureFly and I haven't looked back a second. Do I get better fuel burn? No idea... Did not really notice a difference. What I did notice, though, was every single start has been easy.

I also used sceet... The jack trim boot is made from 'unobtanium' as @KSMooniac so lovingly puts it. Everything I saw on here and what my IA recommended was to still cover it up, but we used buttons (more or less) to be able to remove it every annual to clean and lubricate it. Kind of worked out great!

Mostly responding to save this for myself for future use, but generally where is this located on the belly? I did a very preliminary scan through the maintenance manual with no luck on actual location (I read through the "electric gear safety devices" section).

Highly recommend the cheap option of the Kinder Fluff window shades. They are see through and stick to the windows. I use them on my full time plane and bring them along on Mooney flights as well. Absolute game changer and on a budget, too! Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk

***PIREP!*** I put an update and a PIREP in the original post for those that are interested.