petehowell
Well Known Member
Gizmo the wonder dog and I jetted down to see Mom and zip thru the to-do list last night- Mom made Greek Chicken with Orzo and Feta, and it was as good as it sounds. Gizzy might actually smiling as she dreams of Snoopy battling the Red Baron - I'm glad we fared better than Snoopy today.
Somewhere over Wisco on the way home, 9erPopHotel flipped over 2700 hours. That means report time!
Prop overhaul was in this period - but otherwise all was normal. The hot oil came out and the K&P filter was removed and cleaned. The usual carbon was found and a few sparkly flakes, but nothing unusual - the finger screen caught some bigger carbon chunks - none had part numbers.
- Cold Compressions were 72/76/72/77
- 1.5 qts of oil were burned in 52 hours - as usual, all of it in the last 20 hours or so. I noted the oil pressure in cruise was 85psi.
- Valve pics below - still looking pretty good I think!
#1 IN
#1 EX
#2 IN
#2 EX - interesting optical illusion on this one
#3 IN
#3 EX
#4 IN
#4 EX
My setup:
- Crusty 17yr old RV-9A
- ECI O-320
- Carb
- Dual EI
- Hartzell
- Almost all Mogas
- Almost all LOP
- Phillips X/C20W-50
- Borescope is a cheap($11) camera on wire from the orient using the "Cheese" app on an old Linux Mint laptop
Somewhere over Wisco on the way home, 9erPopHotel flipped over 2700 hours. That means report time!
Prop overhaul was in this period - but otherwise all was normal. The hot oil came out and the K&P filter was removed and cleaned. The usual carbon was found and a few sparkly flakes, but nothing unusual - the finger screen caught some bigger carbon chunks - none had part numbers.
- Cold Compressions were 72/76/72/77
- 1.5 qts of oil were burned in 52 hours - as usual, all of it in the last 20 hours or so. I noted the oil pressure in cruise was 85psi.
- Valve pics below - still looking pretty good I think!
#1 IN
#1 EX
#2 IN
#2 EX - interesting optical illusion on this one
#3 IN
#3 EX
#4 IN
#4 EX
My setup:
- Crusty 17yr old RV-9A
- ECI O-320
- Carb
- Dual EI
- Hartzell
- Almost all Mogas
- Almost all LOP
- Phillips X/C20W-50
- Borescope is a cheap($11) camera on wire from the orient using the "Cheese" app on an old Linux Mint laptop
lookin good captain. 
