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Cardinal767 - Did you order the part from Mooney or Lasar?

Is replacing the back spring something a run of the mill A&P can perform, or is this something best left to a Mooney-specific shop?

Thanks!

Seem to have a little squeak when I turn the trim wheel. If I were to remove the trim wheel cover, what type of lubrication is appropriate? Thanks! Also, I seem to recall someone made a lubrication guide, but I couldn't find the thread.

Pretty cool having a Rocket available for rent in Vegas.

I haven't priced the part yet, but if I don't go ahead and do it, I might just buy a kit and hold onto it to spread out the pain of the landing gear motor rebuild. I'm starting to lean towards waiting at least another year. Thanks for your feedback Jim.

Looks like we probably won't be rebuilding the motor, after all. My mechanic doesn't have any experience with the no-back spring, but I'm still weighing having him do that as the potential of having it break makes me nervous (is it difficult without experience?). Those of you who have just had the spring replaced...how many hours have you been billed for just having the spring replaced? Thanks.

Thanks everyone

I tend to be of the preventative maintenance camp. I was going to do the no-back clutch spring SB, but since I have about 2300 hours on my landing gear motor, I was wondering if it might just be worthwhile to put in a rebuilt motor while it was being worked on. Any thoughts? How many hours before you had your landing gear motor rebuilt and where did you have it done?

At how many hours is it recommended that you pull it for overhaul?

Interesting idea. How do you get that piece of silicone baffle to stay in place?

Hot water with soap (not sure the brand, but Aircraft Spruce has several for planes). The important part is to finish with Collinite's No. 845 Insulator Wax.

There is a slight MooneySpace connection as I started bugging Hilton/WingX to add this feature, at conventions, practically since their conception. I was at the National Business Aviation Association bothering them recently about this, as well. Finally, they emailed me a while back to tell me that the feature was finally coming and...voila. My primary interest was getting the program to put out a warning to check gear/run checklists at 1,000 ft. alt. of destination. There is also a Pebble Steel model which looks a bit nicer, but costs a bit more. https://getpebble.com/steel

Congrats!

With headsets constantly improving, I have opted against additional noise-reducing measures that add weight. I figure by the time I get to the Zulu 5, I should be happy as pie.