Last Call - Any Yoke changers out there?

John Kunkel wrote:
Being an A&P, I simply made a log book entry using the Piper conversion kit
number (gasp) since I was pretty sure nobody had ever seen the real Piper
conversion yokes and so far nobody has said a word about it.

That was some great engineering/fabrication, but you've just advertised
the fact that you did it all over the world in a countless number of
archives.

--- Jay

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"Jay Masino" wrote in message
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John Kunkel wrote:
Being an A&P, I simply made a log book entry using the Piper conversion
kit
number (gasp) since I was pretty sure nobody had ever seen the real Piper
conversion yokes and so far nobody has said a word about it.

That was some great engineering/fabrication, but you've just advertised
the fact that you did it all over the world in a countless number of
archives.

Mike Spera wrote:
SNIP

Mike,

We did my annual this weekend, and my Bowties inspected OK for another
year. I asked my mechanic (a Piper expert) about it, and he said he's
replaced the Bowtie yokes before, so it's definitely possible to remove
that pin and separate the yoke from the shaft. Personally, I like my
Bowties, so I'm probably gonna try and keep them as long as I can.

--- Jay



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Mike Spera wrote:
Still trying to find out if anyone has removed the old bowtie yokes from
their shafts and replaced them with ram's horns. Lots of folks changed
out the yoke/shafts as units, but nobody will fess up that they actually
swapped out the yokes themselves.

Since Piper lists the yoke/shaft as one part number, there probably is
no approved method of separating them.

Looks like I will return the ram's horns with bent shafts I bought from
the boneyard. If you cannot demate/remate them from/with the shafts,
they are useless.

Thanks,
Mike

Mike Spera wrote:
Still trying to find out if anyone has removed the old bowtie yokes from
their shafts and replaced them with ram's horns. Lots of folks changed
out the yoke/shafts as units, but nobody will fess up that they actually
swapped out the yokes themselves.

Since Piper lists the yoke/shaft as one part number, there probably is
no approved method of separating them.

Looks like I will return the ram's horns with bent shafts I bought from
the boneyard. If you cannot demate/remate them from/with the shafts,
they are useless.

Thanks,
Mike

I have a '64 vintage pa28-140. I replaced the bowties with cast metal
ram's horn yokes with PTT that I bought from Aircraft spruce. I believe
they called them Navion yokes. We installed them an annual time and
got local FSDO sign off.