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Nope. I’ll start there though.

In my adventures as a new owner I’m tackling different things. The latest is an occasional fuel smell in the cabin during cruise. It seems to only happen for a few minutes then dissipates. Most flights it never happens. I checked the fuel selector and definitely no smell there. Curious if...

Gonna add another factor into this situation. As stated I ran it pretty hot for a bit on the bad mag trying to burn off any fouling. A mechanic told me to lean it way down until the engine backfires and sputters. Did that for a few minutes and obviously no good. Bad mag. Well today I...

Curious on this still. So there are bad plugs, which were located. So how do I know it wasn’t just bad plugs? How is it found the magneto is actually bad also, not just the plugs?

Plus I was told the other mag is going to be right behind this one and will fail since they are old.

Well am easy way to learn is to drop a quick $1,000 to get everything fixed, replaced and back running.

Yeah I actually went through the log books, as it was inspected in December at the time of the purchase. Mags were due for inspection at that time and not completed. Last overhauled in 2010.

So I spoke with the mechanic who pulled the plugs and inspected them. He said 4 plugs need to be replaced. He said the magneto is shot also and after log in the log books it looks like it was last overhauled in 2010, which he said is a really long time. Hasn’t been inspected or anything since...

Exactly what happened. Full rich, up to 2000 as per poh, right magneto ran like junk stuttering and stuff, 300+ rpm drop which did t happen last week when I flew, although it seemed that mag was always a bit lower.

Already at the fbo. Just curious so I know what may be wrong if it happens again and so I don’t get raped into fixing unnecessary stuff.

As a new owner I checked the engine log book. Looks like a harness and two plugs were replaced in 2015. Besides this the entire engine was overhauled in 2014. Curious how long plugs should last and how do I know it’s not a bad magnet to? Just for knowledge so I do t get conned I to buying a...

This is the answer I’m hoping for and the answer the fbo gives me when they look at it.

So I have a 1969 Cherokee 140, with a 160 engine. It’s flown regularly, weekly basis with an engine that has roughly 450 hours smoh. Today during the run up the right mag was awful with a drop of around 300 rpm and the engine just running awful. We tried leaning it out and burning it off, but...

One of the posters probably had it correct. I am a newbie and paranoid something might be wrong so I’m evaluating everything to be sure. To add to the original post here, my mag drop max’es around 100 rpm. Since that drop is 100, the other drop is quite less, around 50 at most. The tach...