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If the yokes are magnesium, I'll magnadyne them and refinish. They look like the dickens and I know a 140 owner who broke his and had to fly home in left seat with right yoke. I'm doing an annual on a 66 Alon with leaky tanks and corroded yokes. The owner lost his shop manual so am looking for another one, but do have a little red pamphlet with 25-hour and 100-hour inspection checklists. Please advise on where to obtain a shop manual on the Alon Aircoupe. This is a fascinating airplane, with comfortable bucket seats. I have flown it around the pattern and enjoyed flying it immensely. Getting the header tank out was pure H and now I have had a hard time selling the owner on sending the tanks off for repair but he has finally said yes. I told him he had mogas all over his radios and his cockpit was like a combustion chamber. So the tanks are going to JW, Jr., who apparently is the only person in the whole USA who does it correctly. The tanks had JB Weld blobs pasted on their exteriors, which did not work (they seeped) and I cuss every time I see them. Plus the previous A&P covered only the leaking rivets he was lazy enough to see, but not the ones on the trailing edges of the wing tanks, which he was not industrious enough to find -- since you have to pull the tanks to find them. The little red pamphlet has a great checklist to follow for annuals and 25-hour inspections, but I doubt anyone has ever followed it to the letter, because I doubt anybody has pulled the finger strainers, at least not in the last decade. May I also point out that the tcds site at FAA.gov as shown on the FAQ does not work (is 404) and I'd like to also find all the service bulletins and letters on this acft. Airresearch.com, which is the AD service we use, has neither the tcds nor the service bulletins. Thanks a lot for any help you can give me during this harrowing process of restoring a wonderful airplane with 10 years+ of pencil-whipped annuals. Oh, by the way, the owner said one day he couldn't get fuel pumped into the nose tank so he pulled the cover off the fuel pump and found trash on the screen. I personally found trash all over the finger strainer on the right tank and am about to make a bee-dive for the left one and check it too. The screen on the pump was clean this time but there was sediment in the bowl and some corrosion. Thanks again and I am enjoying reading here from knowledgeable Ercoupers. ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers-tech/
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