1976 Overhaul, 1100 Hours..Pass???/

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:18:04 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

Absolutely not. You pull so much as a single nut off a jug of mine, you've
bought the airplane.

Jim


Agreed.

z

John....I guess this shows my newbe status....What is an AMU????

John....I guess this shows my newbe status....What is an AMU????

Aviation Monetary Unit. 1 AMU = $1000. So our spouses won't know how
much we are spending on our planes. :-)

Jon Kraus
'79 Mooney 201
4443H @ TYQ

wrote:

John....I guess this shows my newbe status....What is an AMU????

Jon Kraus wrote:
Aviation Monetary Unit. 1 AMU = $1000. So our spouses won't know how
much we are spending on our planes. :-)

Jon Kraus
'79 Mooney 201
4443H @ TYQ

wrote:

John....I guess this shows my newbe status....What is an AMU????


now that's funny stuff....

wrote:

I might ask them to pull one or two of the jugs and have a look at the
cam. Is that typically a part of pre-buy???

No, that's not normally part of a pre-buy.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Perhaps if in a darkened area, drop a small light thru both spark plug
holes of each cylinder and see if there is any sign of cylinder wall
corrosion & that the valve openings seem normal. It would be better to
check in the rocker box covers though that is another level of
invasiveness. I agree jug removal only after a sale.

Reasonable oil consumption, clean plugs and a successful oil analysis
I'd think could confirm a reliable engine.

Assuming an O-320E2D with reasonable care, has there ever been any
engine more bulletproof?

wrote:
John....I guess this shows my newbe status....What is an AMU????

AMU = Aviation Monetary Unit = $1000. Become an owner and you learn all
too quickly about AMUs. Still, saying "We just spent 1.5 AMUs sounds a
lot better than "We just spent $1500".

Good luck with the buying process. The only advice I can offer is use
your head and not your heart. Be prepared to walk away from the deal.
If you eat the cost of the pre-buy and it turns out to be a turkey,
you'll be money ahead in the long run.


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-IA Student
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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Jon Kraus wrote:
Aviation Monetary Unit. 1 AMU = $1000. So our spouses won't know how
much we are spending on our planes. :-)

Oops, replied to the earlier post before I scrolled down and saw your
reply Jon. IIRC, I first heard the term from you when you were in the
buying phase of your Mooney. Where did you hear it from?


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-IA Student
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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I bought a 172 and it had only 4 hours in the last 3 years when I bought
it. I got a very good deal and the only problem was one bad exhaust
valve. That was found in the prebuy and the owner had it fixed. I flew
that engine for 400 hours when I finally installed a factory OH engine.
The engine ended it life at 2000 hours due to the uncertainity of the
oil pump AD and what I was going to have to spend just to find out.


Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
KSWI


Paul Tomblin wrote:
In a previous article, said:

I'm looking at at 172 that has 1100 hours since overhaul, holding 73/90
++ on all cylinders...the only thing holding me back, last overhaul was
1976...


1100 hours in 29 years? That's 38 hours a year. The insides of that
engine are full of rust and everything is going to go to hell all at once.