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With Hydraulic lifters you are not going to get a very good measurement. The valve springs and lifter leakdown is going to influence it. Try removing the rocker arm and measure off the pushrod if it is stable or remove the pushrod tube also and measure of the edge off the lifter.

The tool is not always necessary. Is it the front or Mains?

Just don't pry it open in flight if you have a Brittain Altitude hold. About 2 seconds later you will get a full nose down response. Not fun at all, learned the hard way.

Both Lycoming and Hartzell have SB's that deal with overspeed. If I remember correctly the Lycoming is the more stringent of the two. They consider any more than 3 seconds an overspeed. The amount of inspection they suggest varies depending on the percent of overspeed. I would tell the CFI I was simply not going to advance it that fast for practice, unless it was a real emergency. http://www.lycoming.com/Portals/0/techpublications/servicebulletins/SB%20369C%20%2804-18-2012%29/Engine%20Inspection%20after%20Overspeed.pdf

Craig, Thanks for adding these 2 foums. It will be very helpful for anyone planning a trip. I had sent Craig a pm late last night asking him to consider adding the vacation forum, about an hr later it was added. We have had some nice writ ups in the past but they were hard to find. Will the original posters ask Craig to move them into this forum as I did or copy a link to them and post onto this forum. Thanks Mike

The pre 70's with split reclining seats came with the reclining mechanism mounted in the armrest. The newer ones that I have saw it appears to be below the seat and involved cutting a hole through the spar for the recline lever. I'm not sure if all models are like this or not.

Most all of the airnav customer comments for the last 3 years mentioned how rough the taxiways are.

From Bob's view sitting in the pilot seat and looking over nose, you would only be able to see the hole if you were 20-25 ft away. The fact that is was on the other side of the manhole may have made it more difficult as the manhole cover appears to be raised slightly.

In a previous job in the aerospace industry we started using China made Steel to machine gears and shafts out of. After machining they went through a heat treat process. One day they just stopped getting hard. Further investigation revealed that the steel did not contain any carbon, although the raw stock was marked as an alloy that should. They had also provided certs showing that they had tested it and is was correct.

Another thought would be to ferry the plane back to your home area so you can keep an eye on what work is being done.

I have a 67 F with a new engine and have been checking it at every oil change. I remove the 2 air ducts and go in from there. Once broken loose I pack a lot of paper towels down under it to catch the oil that will come out. Its a tight fit, but other than the safety wire its not that bad of a job. I've found a long "screwdriver" type twister works better than the pliers type for the safety wire on it. It gets easier after you have done it a few times.

There are 2 things that they check on a altimeter. One is the accuracy and the other is they check it for leaks. If the leak is around the glass, the shop who does mine fixes it with a coat of clear nail polish around the edge of the glass (The FAA has approved this). During the accuracy check they put it on a vibration table that makes it sensitive to small changes.

Something like this? https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/eppages/fuelpumps.php?clickkey=6450

I think that goes along with what I posted earlier about the antenna pattern going outward and not upward. At 17,000 you are not going to get the tower under you, you are going to get one many miles away. In the late 90's I used to fly around in my open ultralight with my cell phone. I would occasionally get roaming charges on my bill from Georgia, which was about 80 miles away.

I went back and looked at the STC and it says relocate the inlet for the blast tube. My 67 did not have a blast tube, or any evidence of where one might have been, so we added it. It's possible it was removed moved by a previous owner, but I don't remember seeing a hole in the baffle where it would have went. I had to buy the scat flange it said to relocate. I just went back and looked at the parts manual and see where it should been, but was not there when I purchased the plane. Does the fuel pump end have some kind of shroud that attaches to the fuel pump, or just point at the pump?

The reason I was asking is that the F's originally did not have a blast tube either, but the STC for relocating the Oil cooler includes a 1 or 1-1/4 scat tube for the fuel pump.

Curious if the J has a blast tube to cool the fuel Pump?

The antenna pattern for a cell tower is more outward than upward. At a higher altitude you will be picking up one many miles away instead of the one under you. We have some commercial grade LTE Modems with a wifi interface at work. These have a external cell antenna and have a better radio in them than a standard cell phone. I've been wanting to mount the antenna on the bottom of the plane and see how much better it works that just a ipad in the cockpit.

I would put all the injectors in a jar of Hoppe's and drop them in a ultrasonic cleaner for a few minutes before spending to much time looking at other stuff.

I found one on e-bay for less than half price several months ago. So for I've been very happy with it. I like it much better than a wet compass.

The Cessna we sold a few years ago is almost to 3,000hrs now and running fine with the original motor from 1967.

The FAA forced us to put a fence around our small rural home airport. It goes along the road and stops at the edge of the woods. Nothing to stop the deer though

This fly-in is in a few weeks. http://mooneyspace.com/topic/10057-south-east-mooney-get-together/?hl=serfi

Hopefully you have a low in motion deductible. From what I have heard they will pro-rate the prop cost if a new one is required..

ADSB allows GPS altitude to be reported instead of Baro altitude. There is a bit in the output that states which one you are using. There is also no requirement that it be Wass, only that it is IFR certfied and has a algorithm that implements integrity checking