I survived! So did my wallet! I'd thought that the shop at N85 was going to do my annual. Then several annuals he had ahead of me turned into 'new engine.' Not good for the schedule. And the weather didn't cooperate to let him work as fast as he could last (dry) year.
So suddenly, I found myself with the annual due March 31, and no prospect of getting in until the end of April. Started calling around desperately, and found Carl at N51 who was actually EAGER to do it! He was busy, but likes Ercoupes a lot. There was a bit of a worry on this one, because the starter clutch bushing perished shortly after I bought the plane and on the first oil change we found shards of bronze in the 'elephant catcher' and a ton of bronze flakes in the spin-on. Not a good sign. We replaced that, but were still worried as the shaft it turns on was not particularly smooth. So it was with some trepidation that, 15 running hours later, we sliced open the filter and looked at the screen. Joy! The screen was clean and the filter just had some few little golden twinkles. That was as expected; leftovers were a certainty in such a case. But there weren't many. I can't imagine why someone wouldn't get a spin-on oil filter to protect these $12,000 engines! I had about five squawks, and Carl found several more, like four plugs at the end of their life cycle, but nothing that wasn't really just routine. By the way, he said I saved myself a bundle by having all the logs in order, in a case, in files, and every 337 in a file, and every applicable AD printed out, and the results of past AD searches all collated, plus the result of my own search WITH the due dates and hours ready to go. Five days of working on it half time, and all was done, I was no longer worrying about a bronze-fest in the engine, and the Spring weather and blue skies are just around the corner. I said BLUE SKIES ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER. Okay, dammit, somebody cue the blue skies. F***ing stationary front. Greg __________________________________________________________________________ ______ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Enlighten your in-box. http://www.topica.com/t/15
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