lakeboarder
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Tucson
I am the proud new owner of a 1993 PA-18 :lol:
I have two questions hoping you guys can help with.
1st: The engine is a 150hp with a2b. It had horrible compression on two cylinders so I bought the stc and have the cylinder kits from Lycoming on my desk to make it 160hp b2b. My question is about cylinder removal. My IA and I are going to do them this weekend, but I have not seen any Lycoming service instructions for removal of one cylinder and then torque and so on... or do you remove 4 cylinders at once and just retorque per service 1029d. Does Lycoming make any suggestions?
2nd: I have mad tailwheel shimmy on the baby bush tailwheel that was pretty severe. I have gone thru most issues from tailwheel angle to all adjustments. I have not flown it yet with all my adjustments but I am pretty confident I have fixed some of the problems. I have not been able to solve this mystery in the picture....where the rudder connects to the spring... is that factory? It has about a 1/4 of play in that bolt and wondering if that is contributing to any shimmy from the start...not sure because my other cub is not rigged like that.
I have two questions hoping you guys can help with.
1st: The engine is a 150hp with a2b. It had horrible compression on two cylinders so I bought the stc and have the cylinder kits from Lycoming on my desk to make it 160hp b2b. My question is about cylinder removal. My IA and I are going to do them this weekend, but I have not seen any Lycoming service instructions for removal of one cylinder and then torque and so on... or do you remove 4 cylinders at once and just retorque per service 1029d. Does Lycoming make any suggestions?
2nd: I have mad tailwheel shimmy on the baby bush tailwheel that was pretty severe. I have gone thru most issues from tailwheel angle to all adjustments. I have not flown it yet with all my adjustments but I am pretty confident I have fixed some of the problems. I have not been able to solve this mystery in the picture....where the rudder connects to the spring... is that factory? It has about a 1/4 of play in that bolt and wondering if that is contributing to any shimmy from the start...not sure because my other cub is not rigged like that.