Glen, thanks for your advice. I am getting a lot of very valuable information which I am compiling for future reference when I start looking
individual coupes over. A lot of time has passed (32 years) since I owned a coupe and as you point out there are problems now that didn't exist when I bought mine. Bob >From: Glen Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [[COUPERS] coupe expenses] >Date: 10 Jan 00 00:35:36 EST > >Hi, >You have probably gotten a lot of responses but let me put my little bit >in. >I would say first and foremost, look at the engine. You can fix airframe >stuff (though something like a corroded rear spar might run $3,500) but a >major overhaul costs around $7,000-$10,000. I know because I bought mine >in >October and now it has blown something in there. May be serious, may not >be, >but with an overhaul dating to 1966 it needs redone. Turns out that though >it >has only 750SMOH, in one 7-year period it ran a total of 14 hours! Either >it >sat rusting or somebody lied about the time. This uncertainty about time >is >common with the coupes so you have got to be really careful about that, so >inspect the logs carefully and see what the total time was at each annual >and >the calendar time since overhaul - more than 10 or 15 years is getting up >there a bit. Hardly any Ercoupe flies enough to make it to TBO - most of >them >get top overhauled at around 700 or so due to sitting. I have a hunch that >the age of the cylinders and other parts on the C75s-85s is making them >more >troubleprone. Millenium cylinders or similiar would be worth paying extra >for. Also, get the baggage compartment bottom up and look inside the >lightening holes in the tailcone to inspect the back of the rear spar. The >front is easier to inspect but the rear gets corroded far worse from >moisture >from the seam in the fairing there. My coupe is amazingly cheap to operate, >and it is best run on car gas because the lead does it no good. Glen Ward > > >____________________________________________________________________ >Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __________________________________________________________________________ ______ To unsubscribe from this list please send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________ Keep up with breaking news! Join our Hot Topics list. http://www.topica.com/lists/breakingnews/t/12
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