Piper aircraft wash $500.

brien23

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How to turn a wash job on your piper PA-28 into a $500. repair. Give some well meaning kids a wash stick and let them wash the bottom side of your wing. Their are vent tubes 1/4" around sticking out about 1" from the bottom of the wing if you hit them with a wash stick they break off flush with the bottom of the wing. To change them you have to pull the tank, I see a lot of planes with the vent tubes broken off not sure it changes things that much, and I am sure a lot of IA's look the other way on a annual.
 
Vent tubes ?? What vent tubes? :)
 
Walboy said:
I had a mechanic tell me the vent tube on a piper cherokee fuel tank is cut at an angle so that ram air pressure will pressurize the tank. If it's flush, it wouldn't do that.
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Maybe if they were flush (straight cut, not angled), they'd siphon the fuel OUT! :eek:
 
Didn’t we have thread about girls in bikinis washing planes, I don’t remember anyone being so concerned about their planes then?
 
teejayevans said:
Didn’t we have thread about girls in bikinis washing planes, I don’t remember anyone being so concerned about their planes then?
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What planes? I may need to rewatch that video!
 
Now I feel good about spending better part of Saturday washing under the wing and the belly myself. May be I should wear a swimsuit next time
 
I guess so. I think before I'd pull the tank and buy those new screws, I would seriously entertain an "owner fabricated" tube to stick into the end of the broken off one.
 
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