oil change

This year I started changing my own oil, which has been way more convenient than bringing it into the shop. The only issue is that when I have to open the oil filter to check for debris after an oil change it's... not a very neat process. In fact my process is about as ungraceful as can be. I...

Hi! Curious if there are any A&Ps in the Chicagoland area who would be interested in helping with a couple small things on my Arrow? 1) Supervise/assist with my oil change 2) Help me troubleshoot/diagnose a radio transmit issue (looking to understand what could be happening, even if we can't...

Curious if anyone knows where I can pick up an adapter that fits this oil-drain design? The last 2 A&Ps who have done oil changes on it said I should carry one with me since it's non-standard, and without one they end up having to manually hold it in place as they drain the oil (also runs up the...

Total time SMOH 970 (15 years ago) Total on 4 cylinders 360 (8 years ago). Good afternoon all, Recently bought a C150 to fly around for fun. I love it but since it was only flying 20 to 40 hours a year for the last 10 years I decided to do an early oil change (11.5 hours). I logged these in...

Hi Everyone, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this so I am sorry if this is the wrong place for this. I am looking at purchasing a 1972 Cessna 150L. The aircraft I am currently looking at has roughly 5200hrs. TTAF and about 1600 hrs. SMOH. It had all four cylinders replaced and...

I have a oil-thirsty Lycoming TIO-540 (~1000 TTSN), must add a quart every seven hours. Everything else looks very good. Strong power, temperatures by the book, good compresion on all cylinders, not foul plugs problems, easy start, no external leaks, ...but still I am a little worried. What is...