acroflyrgirl
Well Known Member
Seems I keep chasing the vibration dawgs. Today, after a thorough pre flight I took off and immediately noticed a little, oh so subtle vibration. Felt like something loose again with my exhaust system.
I check the hangars pretty close as they are a four into 4 so lots of hangar pieces. After I landed and before I took anything apart I asked my neighbor, RV7a builder/flyer to take a gander at my exhaust pipes and get his opinion.
He thought as I did that they were secure. So I took the cowling off and was very happy to find this...
I don't have any spare DG11's but Roger with the RV7a had a spare rubber insert piece.
Talk about an easy fix.
I think I need a more secure exhaust hangar system in general though. This is my second time recently that I've had hangar issues.
Also I have 3/4 OD tubing where the adel clamp attaches. I look up in the catalog and it shows a DG12 and yet this DG11 I am using seems right.
Look at that, hangar paraphernalia everywhere.
I check the hangars pretty close as they are a four into 4 so lots of hangar pieces. After I landed and before I took anything apart I asked my neighbor, RV7a builder/flyer to take a gander at my exhaust pipes and get his opinion.
He thought as I did that they were secure. So I took the cowling off and was very happy to find this...
I don't have any spare DG11's but Roger with the RV7a had a spare rubber insert piece.
Talk about an easy fix.
I think I need a more secure exhaust hangar system in general though. This is my second time recently that I've had hangar issues.
Also I have 3/4 OD tubing where the adel clamp attaches. I look up in the catalog and it shows a DG12 and yet this DG11 I am using seems right.
Look at that, hangar paraphernalia everywhere.