Installed new Lord mounts.

[bnicolette]

Spent all day with my mechanic installing four new lord mounts and cleaning injectors.  To my delight when we put the cowl back on, it lined up perfectly with the spinner and the clean air inlet.  I elected to change out the lord mounts as there was about a 1/2 inch sag showing and didn't want to just put in shims to raise the engine back up.  I had to believe that the MSC that put the engine in 11 years ago had it lined up/shimmed correctly and thanfully that must have been the case.  It is perfect now with the new mounts.  I am very anxious to fly behind it again and see if I notice a difference with the cleaned injectors and new mounts with the little bit of vibration that I had previously.

[tony]

I'll bet you'll go faster now too.  The thrust line will be where its supposed to be.

[bnicolette]

That would be a nice surprise that I hadn't thought of.   Thank you for the insight!!

[DaV8or]

I'm hoping this too. My engine was sagging, but we shimmed it at annual. Drooped down about a half inch. I get it back next week, so we'll see.

[PTK]

Quote: Bnicolette

Spent all day with my mechanic installing four new lord mounts and cleaning injectors.  To my delight when we put the cowl back on, it lined up perfectly with the spinner and the clean air inlet.  I elected to change out the lord mounts as there was about a 1/2 inch sag showing and didn't want to just put in shims to raise the engine back up.  I had to believe that the MSC that put the engine in 11 years ago had it lined up/shimmed correctly and thanfully that must have been the case.  It is perfect now with the new mounts.  I am very anxious to fly behind it again and see if I notice a difference with the cleaned injectors and new mounts with the little bit of vibration that I had previously.

[Shadrach]

Brett, do report back. My experience is that it will make little difference in cruise speed unless something is really off... It will look better though!

[bnicolette]

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