Aaviationist

Yawn. Touch and goes are a normal part of training and staying current and proficient. There is nothing wrong either way touch and goes.

Step one hope step two pray. do a lot of waiting in between.

You don’t speak for the others following.

That’s literally what it is. yes Mike, that seems to be exactly what this is. It’s a nothing sandwich. A document with a header, and a footer, containing nothing.

That’s literally nothing. It literally says they are not aware of any issues, but if you do have issues, to please report them. nothing to see here let me ask a practical question to the 3 of you. - When all paths to a drop in replacement are exhausted and none are found, what do you think the next step is? It’s NOT “oh I guess we need to use leaded fuel forever”. You’re going to HAVE to do something to make your aircraft compliant with whatever the requirements are, or scrap it. That’s what it is. At least 1 of the 3 of you thinks this is strictly someone else’s problem to figure out financially. And it isn’t, and it never will be.

People want to talk about “the best Mooney shop this” and Don is the best Mooney mechanic that”. when you go to the shop who is turning the wrenches? I’ve had only one experience with that shop asking about log entries they made, and it was not good.

Now that this thread has wound down to 3, maybe 4 people circle talking the same thing repeatedly, surely the FAA will take notice and make change.

Before someone starts going on (incorrectly) about insurance rates, this was like - 10 years ago.

This is tiresome. how’s getting gami to pay for your tank patch working out?

Oh yeah, you’re right. The old “wood “ overlay. It’s been a minute since I’ve seen anything with that still in place.

… not sure what you’re trying to do exactly but replacing the panel is always an A&P job. All the instruments need to come out as well.

Let me ask a hard question I hope you can answer truthfully- if that tiny amount of fuel wasn’t floating not floatIng at the top would you have recognized it to be water?

No, that connector and cable was painted (instead of taking the 30 seconds to cover it) and then, at some point disconnected, likely during painting as well based on what it looks like, then left in there for however long. we know it’s been that way for a while because someone tried to troubleshoot it by swapping the cables from the splitter, leaving them connected backwards. There is no reason to do that otherwise, or, it never worked. (Because the cable in the tail was not connected) the paint on the connector k bus is still there suggesting it’s not been worn off (or even marked) by assembly or disassembly Next, the ad for that airplane says there is no corrosion, but your fuel cap is very heavily corroded. there are a lot of things you have posted in your journey so far that don’t really make sense. This is just one of them. Why was one wingtip light painted and the other not? Why didn’t they bother to cover that cable and connector when they painted it? Is that corrosion behind the jack screw? It’s hard to tell as the picture is blurry. that cover over the jack screw is shredded. And we know it’s been there for a while and likely in that same condition for a while because that too appears to have inexplicably painted as well. You need to have someone who knows what they’re doing look very closely at this airplane. If it’s had 21 annuals since painted I’d be having a hard look at everything in that 21 years because it clearly has not been inspected back there.

Again, based on your findings, it sounds like you are at the beginning of your maintenance journey. must have been some hangar! id strongly recommend you check all the controls and surfaces for proper assembly. What you found suggests those connections have not been assembled properly since it was painted. And nobody bothered to check. get someone to look at this airplane VERY closely.

I wouldn’t call that “too much”. Pull your filter the next 25 instead of 50 and see what you e got.