My guess is that it is not the heating element. I had the same thing happen
on a Sundowner. I went ahead and ordered the part after the avionics tech
who was doing the IFR cert assured me it was the element. My A&P tested the
old one after he took the $450.00 new part out of the box and installed it.
The old one was fine, it turned out it was the ground wire in the wing. He
said he threw it in a bucket he has of old, functional heated pitot tubes.


"Marco Leon" mmleon(at)yahoo.com wrote in message
...
I have a 1978 Warrior II and it looks like the heat element went south. The
circuit breaker is fine so I believe that's the problem but I'm open to
suggestions. My A&P is out of town so I'd like to try and get a head start
by ordering parts if possible. Can anyone recommend a source to get a
heating element for a Piper pitot tube? Is it recommended to get that
separately or is a new pitot unit the way to go?

Thanks,

Marco



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