Hi folks, Well, I am feeling like a real fool. I guess I should have known that a plane which was just annualed the week before I bought it, but after I had agreed to buy it, was not a good deal, at least concerning the annual. I am not even sure if the IA ever looked at it. It is 3am here and I have just come back from finding the most obvious of problems, the most stupid of which was that the hose clamps on the little pieces of rubber hose that goes between the roughly 1.5" pipe and the intake manifolds on each cylinder are on two cylinders jingling around loose down on the metal pipes! Must have forgotten to tighten them or just never put them back on. Possibly the former owner was messing with it, as they were not like that when I first agreed to buy it.
One of the hoses is deteriorated. I got so excited when I saw those hanging there I jumped up and now have a big knot on my head from the prop. The fun had started earlier when I got into the fuel bowl since it was leaking and found the gaskets to be shriveled down to about nothing and cracked almost into pieces. Also a fuel line on the right side is almost pulled off its nipple on the firewall. The oil was evidently not changed like it says in the book as it is still like tar, in fact it is odd looking, much thicker than Aeroshell 40 is out of the bottle and kind of grey mixed in too. I believe the airframe is in good shape overall though. Possibly more of the inspection rings should be cut out on the bottom of the wing though, as only about 5 on each wing have been done so far. I am just glad the plane made it back from Indiana without a problem! And glad that Claude Wheelbarger had a flat last weekend and wasn't able to make it here to fly the plane with me, that turned out to be good luck Claude! Anyhow, all you folks who are always asking for advice about maybe buying one, BEWARE, if they miss easy to fix stuff like this how will they ever spot a spar that is corroded, etc.? Glen Ward ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
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