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2006 Annual -- My 8th Owner Assisted -- Update
Things are moving along.
1. My new tail-to-fuselage fairing has arrived, and my A&P has allowed as how we can use cherry pop rivets (rather than structural), which will save a bunch of headache. (Although Mary will still have to get back into the aft fuselage in order to vacuum up the rivets that fell into the plane when we cut the old ones off...so pictures will be forthcoming... ;-) Thanks for the suggestion! 2. We're still hunting down the source of a pesky oil leak that has driven me nuts over the last year. I pulled the prop off yesterday, under the suspicion that the seal right behind the prop might be the culprit. It wasn't. It looks like the oil might be coming out where the case halves come together, right behind that seal -- but it's sure hard to tell. So, we're retorqueing all the case through bolts again, and my A&P is going to apply some sealant (that he uses on the big jets at his "day" job) to that joint, in hopes of licking this incredibly aggravating problem. (I want the Japanese to come out with an airplane engine. I'll bet it wouldn't "mark its territory" like an old Harley, and maybe the competition would force Lycoming/Continental to figure out a better way to seal their engines....) 3. As long as the prop is off, I sanded the backside of the prop, and will be applying a nice, new coat of flat black prop paint to it. It was pretty badly scoured, and -- with the sun at our back -- was really getting annoying. 3. The new Ameri-King ELT arrived, which I'm suppose to be installing right now. Unfortunately, our lead housekeeper called in sick this morning, so Mary is out cleaning rooms, which means I'm covering the desk. (I've got other staff on vacation.) So I'm paying my A&P $65/hour instead of $8/hour for someone to cover the desk. Stupid, stupid, stupid. :-( Otherwise, no surprises...yet. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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