Engine over TBO at purchase

"Newps" wrote in message
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Mike Spera wrote:

Ah Bull****.



If the engine overhaul number is $14k, I would add another $5k for:
muffler O/H.

$400 for a new one.


alternator O/H,

$300.


starter O/H,

$250.


fuel and oil hoses,

$50 maybe for hoses, plus time.


scat
tubing,

Hardly anything.

Then too... http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/187727-1.html

/excerpt
The Savvy Aviator #8: Overhaul Overdone
August 4, 2004
By Mike Busch ,
Columnist


When an instrument, accessory or other appliance stops working on our
airplanes, we generally get it overhauled or exchange it for an overhauled
exchange unit, right? Wrong, says AVweb's Mike Busch, who argues that
overhaul is often unnecessary and a big waste of money, and offers several
illustrative cases-in-point.

Why are so many aircraft owners and A&P mechanics "spring-loaded to the
overhaul position"? I think the word "overhaul" might be the most overused
and misunderstood word in the lexicon of aircraft maintenance.

Last week, I was talking to a friend who had just put his airplane in the
shop for its annual inspection. I asked him if he'd submitted any squawks
for the shop to fix. He replied, "My nose strut hasn't been feeling right
and it's been weeping fluid, so I had them overhaul it."

I pointed out to my friend that I was sure the shop hadn't really
"overhauled" his leaky nose strut. The shop would have disassembled the
strut, cleaned it, replaced the O-ring seals with new ones, then reassembled
the strut and serviced it hydraulic fluid and compressed nitrogen. That's a
"reseal" or a "repair" but not an "overhaul."

/end excerpt


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO