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I found most older Cessnas out of rig. Mechanics too often shoot from the hip on this stuff, and over the years an airplane just gets worse as subsequent mechanics change stuff to try to fix previous misrigging instead of reading the manuals and starting over and doing it right. The dumbest is...

Something wrong there; maybe the whole thing was misplumbed by the installing mechanic. The header is fed from the selector outlet so that either tank can feed. The fuel return is to the header, not either of the mains. The header is vented to the right main tank at the vent crossover tube.

Yes, that was to prevent the taking off with the selector off. But it also required a separate fuel shutoff (to comply with FAR 23) at the header outlet. The injected 185s were all built like this from the factory.

As 455Bravo says, a header tank also has to be installed. I did the IO-550 Air Plains conversion in a 180. The 182 would be about the same. There was an awful lot of work to it, including some difficult fuel system plumbing changes behind the firewall. That takes a lot of expensive shop time...

Too many variables. What is the cylinder bore now? Has it been "cleaned up" and standard pistons and rings used, with clearances at or near service limits? Has it been oversized to .010" and oversize pistons and rings installed? Have those cylinders been pressure-tested (same technique as...

Yes, but he may have taken it from Joseph de Maistre.

It's a tube-and-fabric airplane with a wooden wing, also fabric-covered. Burning it would release plenty of toxic smoke from the glues, polyester fabric and the finish coats. Doesn't sound to me like a picnic.

That air/oil separator also catches and returns water to the crankcase. Not wise at all.

The muffler, if it's used for cabin heat, needs pressure-checking. Use a clean-out shop vac for the air, and soapy water for the bubble checking. Lots of soap. Too much pressure will blow the soap away and no bubbles will be noted. This will find tiny, invisible cracks. The main gear legs might...

Old wooden homebuilts needing new fabric are hard to sell. Don't ask me how I know. I wouldn't be afraid of an old, long-out-of-production tube-and-rag airplane. In Canada those can be registered as Owner-Maintained, and I can make nearly anything on those airframes. It's old engines that are...

It's more than the regs that keep us safe. Understanding subjects like carb ice and its management, and Angle of Attack and how it changes in flight, are examples of the things that kill pilots regularly. I haven't seen a regulation that a pilot must understand these things, only that the...

It's not a leakdown. That's a totally different technique. We use the differential compression test, with the difference between the gauge readings being the test result. And we are looking for leaky rings and valves, too. Listening at the oil filler for noise detects ring leakage. Noise at the...

It's based on an APU. They make about that much hp. If you want more you need something like an Allison/Rolls Royce C250.

Once again: What are your credentials and experience? I don' t believe you have either of them.

Well, not 2000 years ago, but 50. The change in variation there is about 10 minutes per year. In 50 years that's 500 minutes, or a bit over 8 degrees.

Replying to my earlier post; I was going through boxes of my books and came across the same manual, but from 1973. It has the same stem/guide tolerances as shown above. Note that the O-200's valves are tighter than the C75/85/90's; I suppose one could use the numbers for the older engines as...

Yup. Way back in post #13 I said all this:

And by the time he's finished that radio call he's 3.8 miles out.

Yes to all of that. The rod end should also not rub on the throttle arm, Sometimes one needs a thin washer between the rod end and throttle arm for clearance. It depends on the lateral angle of the cable, if any, and whether the rod end has a thicker section to its threaded boss.

The washer IS tight on the wire at the washer's hole. The whole thing is a bit too tight, as the wire is bent up enough to be scraping on the lever.