Categories: Maintenance and Improvements, Braking system, Don't Do This..., Intercom Replacement, Oil Consumption, The Cabin Heating Saga, The Cooling Saga, The Nosedragger Club, True Confessions aka I Have Been A Fool
2006 Maintenance Item #1 - replace Garmin GPS
by Graham 
When I bought N131JF, it came equipped with a Garmin 95XL GPS. This is a fine little unit, but Garmin stopped updating the database in July 2003, claiming that it had become too big to fit in the unit (the cynic in me prefers to believe that this was rea… more »
01/05/06 06:52:25 pm, Link to articles by Ben Visser
by Graham
A number of interesting articles about engine operation and maintenance. This is also a link on the right hand side of the blog page. more »
Moving to Lancaster airport...
by Graham
For some time, Dallas Executive airport has been consistently ignoring my requests for remedial action on my hangar (small stuff like filling the holes in the asphalt floor was a remedial action that they could have done but did not).
They then painted… more »
More news on Cooling
by Graham
See my posting below on the trip to Longmont. The difference of 20 degrees that I have been seeing between #1/#3 and #2/#4 is due to differences in the fuel distribution, not differences in the airflow through the cylinders. I need to work on the cooling… more »
Vibration issue is now resolved...
by Graham
In my last posting I noted how engine vibration was unacceptable above 2540 rpm. This was after I had the engine and prop dynamically balanced by a local balancing shop.
There had to be another cause for this vibration. The vibration first appeared in… more »