The FAA came by today and inspected my 182.
They mentioned they have seen my web site so be careful
what you say on here as they could be listening :-)

Paul Lamar

Yvon Cournoyer wrote:

What did they have to say about your 182 Paul?
Yvon.

Nice installation job :-)  

I showed them the cheap Stwart Warner diesel truck/boat
tach Cessna had on the instrument panel. 
We agreed it was a throw away design
that was near impossible to take apart and put
back together so they allowed me to use a bit of red tape
on the glass face to re mark the red line at 2400 RPM 
instead of 2600 RPM!

BTW the rubber cowl seals are done wrong in this picture.
It is better to notch the rubber between the rivets and 
pull it together so the rubber makes a right angle with
the sheet aluminum it is riveted to. You can then use red RTV
to seal the cracks in the rubber.  Very timely advice
as we apparently are having problems sealing our cowls
and radiators. I plan on doing this over.

I notice this trick was not mentioned on Tony Bingelis
On Engines or Firewall Forward.

Paul Lamar
 
The AirCraft Rotary Engine NewsLetter.              Powered by Linux.
ACRE NL web site.
http://home.earthlink.net/~rotaryeng/            http://www.linux.org