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  1. jetdriven
    The “cut the wire off and shove a spring in it” reminds me of the Autozone universal for spark plug wire sets. In 150 hours the rubber washers melt in the plug caps too. Turning the plug wire cap nit twists the wires apart. The rest of the system is good. But the plug wire termination is straight up ghetto.
  2. jetdriven
    there are a bunch of cirrus airplanes based at my field, and every time they pull up to the runway they literally firewall the throttle as hard as they can, and the prop surges two or three times before the governor can actually stop it from surfing and over speeding. I guess nobody at that Puppy Mill school is teaching smoothness, you know you don’t have to jam everything like it’s a pinball machine.
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  4. jetdriven
    Your describing a rejected landing which is not the same as a touch and go. I am also a strong advocate of these, but not touch and gos.
  5. jetdriven
    Try propeller man I just bought a 214 prop for 10,500. Which is good these days.
  6. jetdriven
    TKS did that, those kits used to be like 15 or 20 grand and now they’re like 80
  7. jetdriven
    There is no way a 10k hour airframe accumulated 50k landings in its lifetime. Maybe 15k. But still. This is the least of a buyers worries. That said, check for worn out stuff all the Same.
  8. jetdriven
    Except the flap seal kits are not available. Trading 1 for the other.
  9. jetdriven
    We use the cork gaskets. After several rounds of the new neoprene rubber gaskets leaking, the old style is better.
  10. jetdriven
    Your guy is flying in the face of Lycoming “ideally, this procedure is to be done in a test cell where operating conditions can be closely monitored. If the engine is operated in a test cell, the engine must have intercylinder baffles, a cooling shroud, and a test club installed for engine Revolution Per Minute (RPM) requirements. If a test cell is not available, use a test stand with a test club and a cooling shroud for the engine test.” Source https://www.lycoming.com/sites/default/files/Lycoming Reciprocating engine Break-In and Oil Consumption.pdf
  11. jetdriven
    Who is building the engine?
  12. jetdriven
    I would be really concerned about running an Engine at high manifold pressure without some kind of air deflector or scoop on top of it to force air through the fins.
  13. jetdriven
    That’s a Hoskins wingtip strobe, the Hoskins boxes have been out of production for a couple of decades now, but you can morph a Whelen strobe box to work with it, tou gotta repin the strobe side connector…. the strobe tube can also morph and aeroflash tube by cutting it down enough to fit it inside of the lens, or building up a Whelen tube, and the plastic lens can be replaced with a Piper tail light lens
  14. jetdriven
    I think the original Springs had an infinite service life as it should, and the replacement batches are the ones that are defective
  15. jetdriven
    That might be too easy, David !
  16. jetdriven
    No, they have built-in GPSS roll steering so that part is fantastic!!
  17. jetdriven
    The blue style take 3 o-rings. It’s either two -10 and one -11 or vice verse. But cheap and easy.
  18. jetdriven
    One big hurdle is that you can’t use STC data for the field approval. And developing your own data for an autopilot field approval install I couldn’t imagine how much it would take. A lot.
  19. jetdriven
    The only 3308s people want are the latest software version with a429 everything.
  20. jetdriven
    The very cheapest model 3 is 48,490. They have taken a huge leap upwards in the past year or so
  21. jetdriven
    If you Figure the cap cost of a 60-70k car, the opex is cheaper by far, but the capex of the 60-70k vehicle more than exceeds the total cost of the Miata. It’s cooler. It’s not close to being cheaper.
  22. jetdriven
    Problem is that SIRS doesn’t sell the Mooney mount anymore
  23. jetdriven
    Are you sure that rod is cracked? Magnaflux will tell you for sure, that’s the way engine shops check them.
  24. jetdriven
    I’ve done a couple of these at the shop now. Really, if you’re going to own one of these things long-term or you going to look at buying one, pulling all the lifters and looking at all of them is really the smart thing to do here. Last one was a 600 hours since overhaul and 12 years ago, and eight of the 12 lifters had minor but distinct pitting and rust. luckily the cam was OK.
  25. jetdriven
    Jose wants $100,000 for the STC but there’s only a couple hundred airplanes that’s are eligible for the conversion, most have already done it. So do the math…..
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