I've been monitoring the board for a few weeks and have found the exchanges very educational. I'm hoping now that I can get some direct help to a few questions. I'm seriously considering buying my first airplane. My goal was something that had a low cost of ownership, could seat 4, and was...

What are the options out there for replacing the glareshield fabric on Piper Cherokees? Specifically, I have a 1978 Warrior that has some badly-faded fabric though the tears seem to be minimal. I know I'll need to have the A&P remove the windshield but the weatherproofing seems to be coming out...

I purchased a 1971 Cherokee 140 shortly after getting back into flying the first of this year. It is a marvelous plane, relatively inexpensive to fly and to maintain. The other night while flying with my instructor he asked me if I typically got this much vibration. I told him that it felt...

I have a sticky main strut in my Pa-28-151. My engineer has suggested changing the o-rings and valves of both struts. I was curious about the whole structure and have looked everywhere in the internet with no luck Any suggestions where I could find them? Gus

Hey all. As some of you may recall, about a year ago I posted a question regarding two different power loss issues I was having with my PA-28-140 with an O-360-A4A 180hp upgraded engine. I'll summarize what's transpired and figure to get some opinions on what I might try next. Basically, I...

I just ran an FAA database check on a Cherokee Six that I'm interested in, and it came back showing that the plane is on a Experimental Certificate. The purpose is shown as 'Compliance with CFR / Research and Development'. How, if at all, should this impact any purchasing decision with respect to...

Has anyone ever been able to put 6 adults in a Saratoga without exceeding the aft CG? So far, every time I run the numbers with two adults in the aft two seats, I exceed the aft CG.

The airplane I fly (Mooney M20C) has a two place intercom. I have a Pilot PA-400 3BL portable 4 place intercom, to allow 4 headsets to be connected. I bought it used and don't have a manual. So, first, does anyone know where I can find a copy of the manual, either for purchase or online? It...

1962 PA24 just annualed and a new alternator belt was fitted as prop was removed. The new belt looks different from the old, but the part number (I am told) was supposed to be matched/equivalent. The new belt has "teeth" as it were. The old one was just a standard tapered belt with smooth...

Can someone tell me if I can remove the starter from 0 320 Lyc without taking the prop off. Starter is old an has been acting up for some time. Needs new brushes for certain.

Hey all. I'm pretty certain I've convinced myself that my "bad starter" and/or bad ring gear are actually my battery going bad. With the skytec starter, it makes sense that at high-load, the voltage could drop enough so the starter solenoid cannot hold the gear engaged to the flywheel. It pops...

Hi. We had to buy a new fuel tank cap for the Archer (don't ask) and the shop sez the price on the part (not including painting) is about $177. Can anybody verify that that's really what the little round guy costs? Frank

Hey all. Just got done with a marathon day of maintenance yesterday and figured I'd share. The interior lights started blowing the breaker a week or two ago, so my mechanic and I repaired it yesterday. It turns out that the breaker blowing was easy (one of the little clippy light bulbs had...

Hi people, Our PA28 has developed a problem. The Low Voltage indicator keeps coming on. The engineer has replaced the Voltage Regulator which didn't solve the problem at all. Then he changed the Overvolt relay. I flew it for 50 minutes with no problems and then the next time I took it up (some...

I've been trying to find this part on-line without much luck. It is listed in the Piper parts manual as 455151 but also referred to as 6041H105A. It's the relay mounted along side the battery box. My Archer has been cranking rather slowly even after replacing a dying G-35 with a new RG-35AXC...

Thinking about buying a wing jack for my Archer. I see a couple of designs sold by Spruce, one a simple hydraulic jack with an adapter for cradling the bottom of the main gear strut, another designed to catch the coned lift point under the wing. Is there a reason to prefer one style over the...

My Archer has the original avionic stack, KMA20, KX170B, KX170B etc. Single PTT on Left Yoke. A couple of weeks ago the mike stuck open at the end of a 2 hour flight. The following morning I checked the system and found that I still had a "stuck mike". I assumed that it would be the PTT switch...

I bought our Piper Archer just over a year ago from a Californian owner and flew it home to it's new base in Ohio. On the flight home, we noticed on long climbs that the fuel pressure fell off from an indicated mid scale reading to about one third scale. In level cruise the indicated pressure...

I have a PA28-180 with a fixed 60inch pitch prop. I have always wondered how much faster it would be if it had a constant speed prop. I'm hoping someone with a PA28-235 (which has a constant speed prop) could look up their speed for a reduced power setting, for example 57% which would correspond...

The Cherokee 6-260 has a shorter book takeoff roll than the -300. Any suggestions as to why? The gross weight is the same. Props slightly different.