N201MKTurbo

Funny thing, I installed an ACK ELT a couple of years ago. When I installed it, I put the label on the remote unit to match the picture on the front page of the install manual. Then I read the text in the body of the manual and the label on the cover was backwards. I wrote an email to ACK tech support and mentioned it to them. I got an email back from the owner of the company. He said they have sold over 4000 of those ELTs and I was the first one to notice the label was backwards. He said they will fix it in the next printing.

Come on man, that was a shotgun. No worse than dove hunting out at the Gila River. When I go out there I ware goggles, a hard hat and a thick jacket.

Somebody sent me one of these boots. A warn out one. I took it apart and figured out how they are made. It would take probably $5000 worth of machine shop work to make the fixtures. But why bother, it seems like AeroDuct will make them whenever Mooney asks for them. So it would be counter productive to make a second source PMA version for something with such a small demand that is still in production.

I would just make one.

Some very strange deposits on your exhaust valve and it is not rotating. Can you get a pic with the valve open?

Or, you just beat dents into the footwells like someone did to my plane before I got it.

You have to remove the engine mount from the firewall. You can just tilt it down, but it gets weird when you remove the motor mounts.

I have been in aviation for almost 50 years. It has been going up and down like a yo yo the whole time. Sometime there is no one at the airport, it is like a ghost town and other times it is a beehive of activity. The deadest was in 2008. The busiest in recent history was during COVID. That's because it was an unofficial no mask zone. The cops and firefighters did a lot of inspections so they could hang out without masks.

That's why I got my A&P and IA, I'm not depending on anybody. With the airlines offering six figure jobs to anybody in A&P schools, who would want to work on these things?

Maybe we need a new chart symbol, a thug holding a handgun sideways.

I don’t think we are the right audience for preaching about recklessly firing a gun into the air. I doubt anyone on here is that irresponsible.

It was sold to Eric S Jones in Tucson.

BTW, we had a 63 junker for a while. We tried like hell to roll it over. We were obviously not as talented as Ralph.

In 64 they added a leaf spring to the rear end. That mitigated the roll over, then in 65 they gave it the Corvette suspension.

My Corvair days were a long time ago. And I haven't thought about them in quite a while. That was the general consensus back in the day. I even had books about Corvairs that perpetuated that myth. Now that there is the internet, information is easier to come by. It seems that the design was all GM and inspired by a Continental aircraft engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Turbo-Air_6_engine We sure had a lot of fun with those cars. We could hot rod them so they would kick ass on most of the pony cars. And the late models would out handle almost anything on the road. No matter what Ralph Nader said!

That’s strange. If they are asymmetrical, they are both supposed to go down by disengaging the clutch and letting the return spring pull them down. They go down with a bang when that happens. Admittedly, I don’t know every iteration of speed brakes out there. Mine are from 1998.

Yep, the Corvair engine was designed by VW. Same process for both.

When I was in high school my buddies and I were into Corvairs. They had airplane like engines after all. We had one junk engine we would pass around to put in our cars when we were working on our good engines. It had one cylinder with a stripped out spark plug hole. I was the one who discovered that if you whacked the spark plug with a hammer so the threads were a bit oval shaped, you could screw it in and it wouldn't randomly blow out of the cylinder. Oh the good old days when you could buy a spare engine for $50. The three of us could swap an engine in 30 min flat. Add 15 minutes if we had to swap transmissions.

I would make sure your idle mixture and idle speed are set up correctly. If they are wrong, it will do like you describe.

Great job getting the answer on that.

I would have to look at mine. It looks like you are over bending the outer bracket. Maybe putting the thick washers under the nut and bolts, and put the two thin washers on the left side of the bearings. But then why didn’t they use a thick washer instead of two thin washers.

Yes.

Oops.

If somebody wanted to do a mod to replace the vacuum actuators with electric actuators, it would be a bit of work. It would require an STC. I wonder how many vacuum actuated systems are out there? It wouldn’t be technically difficult. It would be one of those deals where you will sell a few as soon as available, and a few a year as the vacuum actuators fail. Once they are all replaced, you are out of business. It would be a fairly easy haul for @Sabremech because he already did it for the step.

There is a retrofit with rotary electric actuators. It is from Precise Flight. They are very proud of it.