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I bought a replacement cable from McFarland for my C. After repairing the broken piece where it attached, which broke off and defaulted to ON . . .

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31 minutes ago, Brian2034 said:

My carb heat shaft is worn, need a replacement shaft. 
 

Footballed?  LIke this?

The rebuild kit isn’t available?

If worst comes to worst, remove the shaft from the flapper, take it down to your local machine shop.  Have them weld some new material onto the shaft then file it down to size.  If the end plate is also worn, that’s  another issue.  Mine was so worn I had to patch the hole it wore in the airbox.  I still have this shaft, if you need a donor.

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1 minute ago, Jim Peace said:

My entire carb heat system was removed by a MSC. They said I did not need it.

Interesting.

I’m curious as to what was documented in the log book…

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25 minutes ago, Jim Peace said:

My entire carb heat system was removed by a MSC. They said I did not need it. Fun times. 

Did you convert to an injected engine?

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1 hour ago, Jim Peace said:

My entire carb heat system was removed by a MSC. They said I did not need it. Fun times. 

What did they replace it with?
 

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1 hour ago, 47U said:

Interesting.

I’m curious as to what was documented in the log book…

They never put that part in the book...I went in for an oil change and while the cigarette smoking mechanic was getting ashes all over my engine compartment he told me that I really did not need all the parts that make the carb heat work.  I was very new to ownership and trusted any person who said they were an A&P.  The normal management team were all on vacation at the time, which is about 90% of the year and they let the losers run the show.  It took me about 3 visits and another MSC to get it all back to normal.  To make it kinda funny, about 5 to 6 years later the owner sends me a letter asking for the money for the oil change....told them to pound sand...

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9 minutes ago, Brian2034 said:

What did they replace it with?
 

nothing....when I did my  run up when I was leaving I called them on the cell phone to let them know the carb heat was not working right.  They never did a run up...of course the sun was setting and it was closing time and I did not want to be stuck in XXX....it was severe clear and a short flight home....took care of it over the next month or two...

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50 minutes ago, Jim Peace said:

They never put that part in the book.

Even for back in the day… that’s more than a little alarming, lack of documentation of maintenance performed.

Previous life, I was a crew chief.  My wifee, RN.  In both settings, if you didn’t document, it didn’t happen.  My conspiracy theory is, back in the day, the A&P/IA wrote as little as possible in the logbook, to (perhaps) 1) maintain as much value in the aircraft as possible, and 2) to not raise ire with the owner of the aircraft.  I had a Cherokee for 20 years before the now 15+ years with my ‘63C, and my IA told me that I write too much stuff in the logbook.  But, where I came from, if the shop didn’t have a discrepancy, they didn’t touch the aircraft.  Discrepancy first, then Corrective Action.

My airplane has been on the ground three times without benefit of deployed undercarriage.  Twice on landing, and a jacking incident.  The first was only 6 months out of the factory, and it’s the only one that has any documentation.  And that’s not even in the logbook, but on a 337.

I’m glad that eventually your got your carb heat sorted out… and maybe learned some lessons on ownership?

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Still looking for a shaft!
Also I went through the lasar site and didn’t find a listing for the air box shaft or the rebuild kit? Can someone point me in the right direction.

would rather find a good used shaft but!

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53 minutes ago, Brian2034 said:

Still looking for a shaft!
Also I went through the lasar site and didn’t find a listing for the air box shaft or the rebuild kit? Can someone point me in the right direction.

would rather find a good used shaft but!

You should take your parts to a machine shop and have them make a new one.

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1 hour ago, Brian2034 said:

Also I went through the lasar site and didn’t find a listing for the air box shaft or the rebuild kit? Can someone point me in the right direction.

 

Rebuild kit for the carb heat system is part number 600063-900.  It includes the shaft, shaft plain bearings, flapper door, the hot air dump valve off the muffler shroud, and bits and pieces including the blue line drawing to install.  (When I installed the kit 15 years ago, it was around .8 amu…)

The carb heat door shaft is part number 600071-000, listed on the LASAR website.  A search of that part number on controller.com yielded a hit, but the noun was ‘component’.  I’d expect the noun to be ‘shaft,’ but might be worth a call.

Surely one of the salvage yards would likely have a shaft that’s serviceable… but I think that for almost .5 amu, a machine shop could make your’s serviceable, either by welding new material and filing it round, or perhaps machining the oval back to round and then bushings to match the bearings in the air box.

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