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I have a client with a 700 hours since new ovation engine and all. He changed his own oil but he didn’t know what was the best, he used Phillips victory oil. And that killed the starter adapter literally the next flight.

I'd definately SDR that. Theres a lot of parts substitution for inferior goods going on, that could be a non-conforming o-ring that swells when it hits oil.

the forward wing is so they could move the main spar carry through (and the wing itself) behind the occupied section of the cabin.

The valve wizard is the best thing I’ve ever seen for angle valve engines. Check that out

they quit shipping dual magneto engines at least before 2014, because we ordered an engine at that point and the two separate mag engine was about 4 grand more, we really thought it over and we decided to go ahead and order the -D engine. And then they said well sorry we don't build that engine anymore so here's a 2-slick mag engine for the same price.

Poplar Grove is one and there’s another shop called Columbia over in Pennsylvania that has a good reputation. I sent my last engine to Triad and ended up costing 4 grand over… due to “corrosion in cylinders requiring honing”. I’ve never seen honing cost a grand a hole. We ask for a new Lycoming cam and new DLC lifters, now these things retail for $110 apiece at aircraft spruce. But their price was $2400 for the set of hardware. I do not feel that’s even remotely fair, especially since he’s the Lycoming distributor and gets the parts at wholesale distributor pricing. Then, the oil drain is leaking, but upon further discovery, the pipe nipple that threads into the oil sump is on the wrong side of the engine and it’s too close to the exhaust. When I went to go unthread it, it appears that it was installed cross threaded and it stripped out the threads in the sump and it would not come out. So I ate four hours of labor And $125 for a Helicoil NPT kit, on behalf of the customer for this. I’m not using them again.

I think the on Lycoming valve cover screws, the lock washer is integral to the screw.

Continental has you torque the silicone valve cover gaskets to a lower number, and have you put blue Loctite on the screws when you install them. The last time I torqued a Lycoming valve cover with a torque wrench, three of them fell out off of one valve cover in the span of an hour flight.

Yes, you have to load shed the main bus down to 30 A or so to get the standby alternator to carry all of the load. In modern aircraft with LED lighting and electronics, that’s not too hard to do.

I have a client who put victory XC 20W50 oil in his ovation and it killed the starter adapter literally a couple starts later. It’s a couple thousand bucks to get one of these things done and you may be waiting a while as well, so keep that Triphenyl phosphate crap out of your engine

it is worth the parts value.

I’m not sure how to make PFM springs via owner-produced. You’d need the complete specs. . And then make something the same.

I can’t see how DLC lifters trash a new cam unless the cam really wasn’t new. In fact the cam usually lasts longer than lifters do even after they’ve been Spalled or torn up. Something doesn’t add up here.

Sounds like my client who had his engine put together by these guys. It’s leaking oil from a blind bolt hole and they basically told him to stuff it.

@Skyland who did that mag?

We use the same shop Maxwell uses for dual mags. Aero accessories of Van Nuys. Aircraft magneto service in Missoula MT for everything else.

It’s a garmin flat rate item.

All the servos have to be replaced. Butvit’s a 22k job not 40K. Keep shopping.

At least you get arrested and charged. In the case of theft on the Internet there’s no consequence there is literally no reason not to try. And I must have been the first one, because after we googled this guys name on the Internet through about 10 people who got scammed by him for a few thousand bucks apiece.At least you get arrested and charged. In the case of theft of the Internet there’s no consequence there is literally no reason not to try.

Yeah I got scammed out of $3700 for a stormscope WX 500. He had photos, he had an 813o wirh seria l number. All that. Steal a 51$ item from Walmart and see what happens to you. They should apply the same standard. Theft is theft.

I think so.

but thats for a FAR 23 airplane, but the Mooney M20R is certified under CAR 3.

i dont see the requirement for a MAP gauge for the controllable pitch propeller part. Can you cite a source? also, Mooneys were certified under CAR 3. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.205

for an altitude engine, is the ovation an altitude engine?