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Where can I find the pattern for the M20E variant? I see a ton of info on the J models but hardly any on the M20. Thank you!

Checked Mag timings today and they are normal!

Just took the airplane in for an oil change removed the cowling and here are better pictures of the baffling. Measured the baffling and it is about 3" so going to order it from spruce and get it repaired ASAP with the pitot heat.

Yes that would be awesome thank you so much!

Can someone also send a link on which baffle seals to buy to get it redone please?

How do I go about fixing them I am new to all of this!

I just looked in the books and that is the one! I am taking the airplane to my A&P IA to see what he can do about the glide path indicators he thinks that the system was not correctly calibrated properly to the GTN 635xi, or there may be a lose wire. He will take a look and I will also tell him that it precesses a lot as well and see what his opinion is. I flew the airplane today and again pulled it out of the hangar and then was off by 90ish degrees so had to reslave it but then it works quite well. On the way home it was only off by around 20ish degrees so reslaved it again and was fine in flight. Will probably replace it with a G5 or GI275 sometime next year. In the meantime I hope he can work some magic on the glidepath indicators.

Nav Radio is set to display on a separate instrument which works well. The only issue is my glideslope needles on that come alive well after the FAF, on an ILS approach, which is a bit odd and I have a flag pretty much all the way down until 3.5-4 mile final where it will finally give me a reading. Localizer works great. Here is the other side of the panel. There is a silver switch as well next to the slave unit I have no idea what it does.

Here are a couple pictures from today. One in the morning and one at night!

Slaving is set to slave once I adjust it. Also sadly the GTN 635Xi only has GPS approaches as it has no NAV. The HSI is tied to that!

I am looking for headrests for my Mooney M20E, any ideas where I can buy them or would I need a seat replacement? Also the overhead Map light that has low and high setting, can someone link a LED replacement for it, looking to get a red plug and play version if possible. This is the light that is located behind right seat at the top. Any ideas on where to get a good yoke cover, I have not had any luck finding one. Thank you!

Anyone in the northern California area that has experience with a 1975 Mooney M20E, looking to get a couple hours of training or just to fly to help me learn the aircraft better!

I have a 1975 Mooney M20E with a gtn635Xi and everything works great such as lateral navigation and GPS performance (LPV/LNAV/LP+V) however on my HSI which is the Bendix King the glidepath indicators come alive but not in the middle like they should but rather a dot and half below the middle point (where they should be) and then when you pass the FAF to descent the glidepath indicators just shoot up and disappear. Again lateral navigation works well and the Bendix king HSI does precess quite a bit and I have to re slave it almost every time i take the plane out of the hangar, but it works really well once set. Any ideas what could be causing this issue for the glidepath? As well as for the constant re-slaving of the unit?

I have a video of when I did the pre buy with the cowling removed. I have posted screenshots from it below. May not be the best pictures but this is what I have so far!

Current oil burn rate is about 6.35 hours a quart. Everytime it is below 6 I add a qt however I do notice that the oil just spits out of the breather tube so had some advice to wait until it is at 5qt to add one. I just reached 60 hours on the engine going to go for an oil change this weekend and get the oil changed from w100 to 15w-50. Suppose to run better in California due to the cold and hot weather. I will also do an oil analysis. The log book says the engine had gotten replaced in 2023 and the previous owner had only put 44 hours on that engine since his time from Dec. 2023- July 2025. Aircraft was not flown as regularly as I am flying.