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Hey. Recently a good friend purchased a gorgeous 1963 Mooney M20C. Brand new paint job, 500 hours left on the engine, brand new prop. After picking it up, after an exhausting flight across the country in turbulent weather he wrecked it in a gear-up landing. For a gear-up landing it's in relatively good shape but the mechanic he talked to thinks his insurance will probably just total it, and he is, understandably, very overwhelmed and distraught at the thought that the plane he's been pursuing for months and saving up for for years might be done after just getting it home. Does anyone have any insight as to how to help lower costs and save his plane? As far as we can tell, he needs the belly panels replaced, definitely needs a new prop (2 or 3 blade is fine), and potentially will need to overhaul the engine. Everything else seems to be okay, and neither wing was damaged.
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This is killing my IA and I... My IO-360-A1A seems to clog injector nozzles every couple flights. We pulled the screen after the fuel pump and cleaned it, overhauled the fuel divider, replaced the throttle body & replaced the fuel line to the flow divider, and cleaned the flow divider. Flew it yesterday for about 20 minutes, and today all the nozzles were blocked (only one even had light showing through). We're at wit's end... A few details: The grit in the inline screen was lighter colored while the "globs" in the nozzles and flow divider have all been very dark. The nozzles feel "sticky" when removed for cleaning. Anti-seize was used on the nozzles after the first cleaning, but has since been cleaned out of the ports' threads. The old throttle body had rust in the inlet chamber and on the filter, and the spring was stuck in some unidentified "gunk" at the bottom. We didn't know how bad the rust was so we replaced it outright. The only parts on the metered side of the throttle body that haven't been cleaned or replaced/overhauled are the lines from the divider to the nozzles. Those are next for cleaning if cleaning all the nozzles doesn't work today. Thoughts? Ideas?
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Hello everyone, I am new to the forum ... so, thank you for allowing me to join! I have heard great things about the group and, now owning a Mooney, I thought that I'd jump right in! I have a J-model for which I would like to purchase some parts, in particular several inspection covers, the wing-tip and leading-edge lenses, and perhaps a few miscellaneous parts like fuel gage sending units, etc., that are found to need replacement. I spoke with the factory and, indeed, they are supplying parts for our lovely birds, but we are relegating to buying them through a service center. Not a bad thing, necessarily, since they can help with getting the exact right part, etc., but there is the question of the price that they will charge. The factory does not provide an MSRP list to general customers and said that the service centers are free to set their own pricing. Has anyone found a service center which is particularly good at being helpful while charging a fair, yet not exhorbitant, price for parts? Any help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated ... by everyone in the forum, not just me, I would assume!! Thanks ... and, fair skies! Andy
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Hey fellow flyers, I am new to the group and in the market for a M20J/K and looking for someone who owns one in the Savannah, GA area to see if I might be able to "try it on" before I commit my time and effort if finding one. Second looking for a CFII preferably a Mooney owner in the same area that is proficient in type. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
