Always good to hear good news. So happy your problems are solved. I have not been able to get up and try the night mode yet, but I also made a black felt velcroed hood for my Garmin 296. That and the night mode will probably solve my problem too.
--- In [email protected], "Jim Gall" <ga...@...> wrote: > > I had the terrible vibration problem couple weeks ago and it's finally > solved.. John Cooper had the problem analyzed to being prop being loose on > the flange.. When I put the new spinner on from Univair, it came with a > front and back mounting plate.. the front mounting plate is of a very soft > aluminum and the washers would sink into the plate by the time I got to 2500 > feet after takeoff, and the engine would start it's vibration..The 25 foot > pounds torque the prop was installed with turned to about 5 pounds torque as > the nuts and washers sunk into the soft front plate.. The problem was fixed > with fender washers behind the prop nuts .. I have a spline shaft crank.. > Now I can read the compass without the bubbles.. I also had the sunlit > problem on sunny days.. This problem was solved when I saw the idea to set > the GPS to night mode on the tech help.. The next step was to learn how to > set up the night mode on my Garmin 295.. The tech help came through again > telling me to go to screen color mode and set to night mode.. Today was a > bright sunny day, the vibration is gone I had a beautiful flight to > breakfast, being able to read the GPS perfect, the pilots window down, the > mode S transponder working beautiful, The breakfast Event tasted better > THANKS AGAIN for all your help.. > > > > JIM GALL > > 94020 >
