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4200 series Slick coils are notoriously bad. Don't bother to fix it unless you replace the coil. The real fix is the 4370. Charlie Melot Zephyr Aircraft Engines

I pay $10/night or $150 a month at Borth Eleuthera. Fuel is $1 more than here at Zephyrhills but I am happy to pay it. My forst 20 years or so there we had no FBO or fuel. Elsewhere I'm OK with $20 or so. I do get upset when the rate for a twin is more than the single rate. They do this at EYW...

Both certified about 20 years ago. Don't dive often. We live 15 minutes from word class sites in the Bahamas. We have gear and a boat. Going to be living there full time soon so maybe we'll get back into it.

With as many TC's out there for sale as there are it's a buyers market driven by insurance costs. That one could be a bargain if the 2,000 hr gear ad is current, it doesn't need 4 tanks soon, the engines stand a chance of making TBO, and a lot of other stuff. FWF can easily run well over 40K...

Yhe hesitation sounds to me like it has a 10-3878 carburetor on it. This is a bit too lean for some but not all O-360's. It can be rejetted to the 10-5193 spec. You have not said in what manner the left mag "fails" the check. Since the mag has been serviced I might start to suspect a p lead or...

Mine sits 4-5 weeks at a time and always works. With summer weather patters starting I'm finally getting my moneys worth out of it.

Mine sits 4-5 weeks at a time and always works. With summer weather patters starting I'm finally getting my moneys worth out of it.

I'd recommend a new Slick harness. It comes with the cap installed. "Street price" ought to be about $265. If you need a mag I have an Electrosystems O/H that I'd like to say goodbye to. I doubt if your problem is the mag itself. My rule of thumb on the Siamese mag is that it should be have an...

If there was a prop strike the engine log should show compliance with AD 91-14-22 which would have been required prior to return to service.

What jumps out at me is that you have not read tim and henning's replies. SPOH generally means since PROPELLER overhaul. The prop was not overhauled at the time the engine was. No big deal. Charlie Melot Zephyr Aircraft Engines

Zephyrhills was down to $3.25 yesterday. Was up to $3.75

Each prop strike, whether it be a gear up, or hitting the towbar is its own little science project. The propensity for damage to the crankshafts is often inversely proportional to the damage to the blades. In a strike with some power on and the blades perpendicular to the ground the blades roll...

I won't comment on the airframe side of this project but the cost to do prop strike inspections on these engines is less than $6,000 each if nothing is damaged or worn out. As factory engines with those times on them they would be good candidates to repair and return to service. It would be...

It must not have Continental cylinders on it!

Fortunately the 52 reports of incidents or accidents over the weekend reflect a three day weekend. Also not all are "wrecks", some are merely incidents. A couple of weeks ago there were 92 posted in one week. If they were all wrecks insurance would be even more costly than it already is!