OregonMaule wrote:Almost flew today but ran out of day light. No leaks. clippwagon and Kevin came up from Redmond to say hi and see how the project was going. Good to meet you guys! Jeremy, thanks for the help. Fly 1st thing in the morning!

If you are ever near The Madras airport stop by. Great people! Open 24/7 Hi speed internet, new FBO, shower, pool table, courtesy car, 5 minutes to town. Madras has it all. Fast food, ACE Hardware, Safeway, BiMart.





Cheers...Rob

HI Rob, Scott here from Bend. Planning on flying up tomorrow, should be by the FBO around 11am, hope to catch you.

OregonMaule wrote:Almost flew today but ran out of day light. No leaks. clippwagon and Kevin came up from Redmond to say hi and see how the project was going. Good to meet you guys! Jeremy, thanks for the help. Fly 1st thing in the morning!

If you are ever near The Madras airport stop by. Great people! Open 24/7 Hi speed internet, new FBO, shower, pool table, courtesy car, 5 minutes to town. Madras has it all. Fast food, ACE Hardware, Safeway, BiMart.





Cheers...Rob

OregonMaule,

Your plane looks awesome! And it was a pleasure to meet you and spend a little time talking airplanes (and other stuff). It's pretty cool how aviation brings people together and how BCP helps to facilitate that! Now get that thing back in the air!

Also, I agree with your statements about the Madras airport. What a great airport and flying community. The guys at Berg are always willing to drop what they're doing to welcome visitors. A must stop if you're in the area.

Clippwagon

Well it was a great day! After 2 months and $33,000.00 the Maule is back in the air and running perfect. I know I got more HP. Normal WOT gets me 145-46-47 MPH with the 29" tires. Now 150-52-53 no wind. Put 3 hours on it today. I sure hate buying 100LL while running WOT 21 GPH OUCH!!

Back to my mogas STC after break in.

Cheers...Rob

Now making CO Congrats

Welcome back to the air Rob!!!

Glidergeek wrote:Now making CO Congrats

Right on Russ, now I can come down to socal and say hi in person.

I met another new BCP guy in person today. Scott. He flies a Cessna Turbo 206. A very nice plane! Thanks for lunch Scott.

Good day

blackrock wrote:Welcome back to the air Rob!!!

Thanks Mike

nice one Rob! glad things are going smoothe...

have an idea, and although i also like to save $, consider staying with the 100LL...low octane fuel is a huge enemy to big-bore motors...i realize that at high power settings, it costs some dough, but after u r broken in, you'll scale back to 11-13 gph like mine, and it is not so bad, and i am convinced that u are doing the best thing u can for your investment.
having bought an engine or two, i know your pain!

jomac wrote:nice one Rob! glad things are going smoothe...

have an idea, and although i also like to save $, consider staying with the 100LL...low octane fuel is a huge enemy to big-bore motors...i realize that at high power settings, it costs some dough, but after u r broken in, you'll scale back to 11-13 gph like mine, and it is not so bad, and i am convinced that u are doing the best thing u can for your investment.
having bought an engine or two, i know your pain!

Hey Joe: I respect your opinion as a airplane and motorsport guy. But respectfully After 50 hours I will go back to ethanol free mogas when I can get it. My engine is the low compression engine designed for mogas. Mogas STC. After looking at the pistons and all of the engine we could see NO!! damage from mogas. I'll tell you, after spending the kind of dough I just spent I don't want to hurt this engine.

Good day

Hell ya! Glad to hear!

OregonMaule wrote:

jomac wrote:nice one Rob! glad things are going smoothe...

have an idea, and although i also like to save $, consider staying with the 100LL...low octane fuel is a huge enemy to big-bore motors...i realize that at high power settings, it costs some dough, but after u r broken in, you'll scale back to 11-13 gph like mine, and it is not so bad, and i am convinced that u are doing the best thing u can for your investment.
having bought an engine or two, i know your pain!

Hey Joe: I respect your opinion as a airplane and motorsport guy. But respectfully After 50 hours I will go back to ethanol free mogas when I can get it. My engine is the low compression engine designed for mogas. Mogas STC. After looking at the pistons and all of the engine we could see NO!! damage from mogas. I'll tell you, after spending the kind of dough I just spent I don't want to hurt this engine.

Good day

I quote a reliable source when I say that even with 10 to 1 pistons you can run mogas if you watch your manifold pressure and keep it under 26 inches to avoid detonation. He also said higher compression pistons will actually make the engine run cooler as it does a more even job of igniting the fuel across the cylinders and by reducing both hot spots in big bore cylinders and reducing incompletely combusted fuel escaping through the exhaust making for better fuel economy.

yup on all that Rob, i just flat respect your 33 large is all...maybe if u keep the MP down and etc, it will be OK...i really like my 540, and they do run smoothe!

Glad to hear 1TL is back in the air Rob!

$33,000 Wow... I could have bought a couple nice Avids for that. Glad your back in the air though Rob!

AvidFlyer wrote:$33,000 Wow... I could have bought a couple nice Avids for that. Glad your back in the air though Rob!

That's what I'm starting to think, Joey

Glad your back in the air Rob!

OregonMaule wrote:

Glidergeek wrote:Now making CO Congrats

Right on Russ, now I can come down to socal and say hi in person.

I met another new BCP guy in person today. Scott. He flies a Cessna Turbo 206. A very nice plane! Thanks for lunch Scott.

Good day

Your welcome Rob, great to have met you. Look forward to this weekend at your shop! Beautiful bird and that 540 looks beefy hanging on that airframe

AvidFlyer wrote:$33,000 Wow... I could have bought a couple nice Avids for that. Glad your back in the air though Rob!

Yeh, i had to do a TIO-540 on a Mooney, including OH of prop, turbo's, waste-gates, controllers etc it was $65k all said and done

So here in Madras doing the annual on 1 Tango Lima. Got 50 hours on the O540. I found a small gas drip out of the drain plug on the carb. The knuckle head who installed it, cross threaded it. Now the carb has to come off and get replaced. Good news PAE is replacing the carb under warranty.
Bore scoped the muffler flame tubs last year all good, they had 250-300 hr on them. Now 450-500 the mufflers are shot, no real surprise. Flame tubes are $100 a side I think. If I go back to Maule mufflers I will put in new flame tubes every year!

I am going to buy the Tims Aircraft Exhaust system. $2800 OUCH!!!

I understand a lot of aircraft will go TBO on exhaust. Really disappointed that Maule has known about this for ever and won't fix it. That IMHO is BS!!

Other than that 1 Tango Lima looks good.

Alex was on his way to Seattle, driving and stopped by to say hi.

Cheers...Rob

Argh! That has got to be frustrating...my bird goes in on Thurs...it's my first one, fingers crossed

Some are run gutted, experimental class of course. Works fine, some loss of cabin heat.