Resurrection of a 1964 M20D

[MB65E]

With a tank that clean I wouldn’t worry about corrosion. Seal it up and worry about it in 20years. I don’t think the Alodine will do any better than what’s there now. 

[Prior owner]

Working on the main gear this week while I wait for the left tank to cure (access panels are back in and I’ll be painting them on Sunday).

I’m going to be installing oversized main gear retract link bushings this weekend, so  I just removed the left gear from the wing.

Dan at LASAR gave me a tip about a method to remove the retract spring, and it worked (the second time). I picked up a stack of fender washers and with the main gear fully extended, I inserted the washers into the spring coils.. the flower petal arrangement worked best. I then retracted the gear by pushing directly on it , and what do you know- the spring stopped compressing before the gear was fully retracted- I was able to easily remove the bolt holding the spring and then pull the whole gear out.

I’ll post pics of the links being reamed and the new bushings going in this weekend.

[cliffy]

quarters were used in times past for this

[Andy95W]

3 minutes ago, cliffy said:

quarters were used in times past for this

But those cost money!  The horror!

[Prior owner]

I just found this older thread on changing out the bushings- nice documentation with videos too....

 

 

[cliffy]

On 7/18/2019 at 7:57 PM, Andy95W said:

But those cost money!  The horror!

Who ever said airplanes were cheap?   :-) 

[Prior owner]

Okay, I’m attacking a host of different things all at once now..  gear bushing change is still in progress.

I need some help identifying a bulb!

I have this little light under my panel on the pilot side that points to the floor- but there is no bulb in it and so I’m trying to figure out which bulb I need.

I stuck a gear warning light in the pic to show the scale- this under panel light is nearly twice the size.

any ideas about a bulb?

Dave

[RLCarter]

Fuel selecter bulb P# 83B1310-117,  Might call an MSC and see what they say

[Prior owner]

38 minutes ago, RLCarter said:

Fuel selecter bulb P# 83B1310-117,  Might call an MSC and see what they say

Thank you!

[Prior owner]

For the rest of the folks out there- it's a GE 1813 bulb, and there is an LED replacement for it.