Installing new DG

[TheTurtle]

Cleaning up the hangar yesterday found a brand new rc Allen tso'd DG still in box aND plastic bag.  Removed My old one and I'm seeing some issues.

1.  The old one had a spacer adapter, looks like it corrects for panel angle.  Problem is on the new one the caging knob is so close to the bezel I can't slide the adapter between.

2.  When I figure out how to make an adapter to fit the caging knob will be to short and I won't be able to push it in.

Thoughts, ideas, sympathy welcome.  

I also found a brand new AI.  When I removed mine there was no panel angle adapter.  If the AI doesn't need one why does the DG?

Do they make special long knobbed DGs?

[Yetti]

Dremel tool and notch it.

[N201MKTurbo]

Check the new one to see what panel angle it is adjusted to. It may not need the spacer.

[TheTurtle]

so im a little stupid.  put the DG and AI in without the spacer since there was no way to make the spacer fit on the DG.

Took it out to run it up and see what happens with vacuum applied.  DG worked fine.  AI was tilted way back....  So I took it back in and used the spacer on the AI which fit perfectly.  All good now. I guess the spacer came off the old AI not the DG.  I should really take more pictures as Im working.

Pretty happy.  I was going to have to overhaul both of my old ones and got lucky and decided to cleanup some of my hangar mates junk first when I stumbled across these new ones which he basically gave me for free.

Now if I could just find an altimeter around in there somewhere I'd be set on instruments other than getting my stupid backwards KNS80 working. (it shows to/from reversed most of the time and shows left right deviation reversed most of the time).

All in all the hangar elves had a good weekend.  Ill get my IA to sign off for me on monday.

I did replace all the vacuum hoses while I was doing the work.

Slowly getting the old girl into shape.

You cant relaly tell since my panel is so ugly but heres the new units.

 

 

And this is pretty funny.

Theres a hole in the IP where the eyebrow light wire goes through.  I think they made the hole about 16th to close to the DG.  So instead of widening the hole the cut a groove in the old DG.  I just had to shake my head.  I rewired the eyebrow and opened up the hole.  PO had some strange things on this plane.

 

 

[carusoam]

Turtle...

Did the original instrument panel have the equator line running from left to right?

The line where the panel had a bend...

the top half is 90° vertical.

The bottom half is tilted by about 8° or so.

It is pretty hard to tell that the IP has the bend since most are covered with a big thermoformed piece of plastic.

The gyros are designed to be at a particular setting.  Make sure they are mounted at the same tilt as they were before...

Check with the hangar elves, make sure they got it right...

Ja know?

Best regards,

-a-