I would like to know if anybody has replaced there exhaust stacks lately and where would a good place to buy them from? I did some checking and found that there is a $75 - $100 core charge on the old ones and an overhauled stack goes for about $380 and a new one is $600. I have one side that has been fixed around the flange area already..on one side the #1 cyl. flange has been ground down to half the thinkness and has some serious exhaust leakage the down elbow into the muffler has had a patch put on it from holes due to thin metal and age. So rather then spending 250 dollars to fix it I might as well buy some new or overhauled stacks. some of your thoughts Brian
Any of the exhaust places like Daley, Knisley, etc will OH, repair, or supply exhaust stuff. Look in Trade A Plane and make a few phone calls. You'll find the right solution.
I just had the whole forward muffler-stack combo replaced by my A/P. I don't generally help him find parts because he does an economical job on his own, but I know the total parts including gaskets and everything was roughly $600.
(Of course...ouch! I guess I'm doing my part for the economy.)
Dawley can overhaul any thing for a fraction of the price of new. I had mine repaired and modified by them and they were as good as new. They even resurface and pressure test them.
When I overhauled the engine in the Arrow I got the exhaust system overhauled. For reasons of regulation I had to cut off my old flanges along with a bit of pipe and send this in to them so that what I got back qualified as "overhauled" since the shop in, if I recall right, Minnesota, couldn't sell "new" but had to incorporate some of the old to qualify as "overhauled". Aren't government regualtions wonderful?
The system I got back seems new in every aspect and has been fine now for 400 hours.
If someone really needs to know where I got it done, I can dig into my files at the hanger but right now it is the coldest outside I have seen here in 5 years so am enjoying a good fire at home.
Isn't it great having a day like that, Leigh?? We are putting up our Christmas tree and finishing our outside decorating today while it's still fairly warm (for December!). I think that you are going to be sending us some of that Canadian cold air starting tomorrow. :( Thanks.
That sounds like a good friend of mine that owns an automotive repair facility. He has a smaller three bay building in the rear of the primary shop where he installs A/C in new Fords and he wanted to build a building connecting the two. Zoning would not approve the construction of a new building connecting the two buildings but did approve an addition to the original building. The addition went all the way to the new building and sealed inside the attic is about 15 feet of the roof from the original building complete with shingles. So he got his new addition which is really a building that connects the two.
Another one is about ten years ago I was looking to import one of those non U.S. importable “new” 1966 VW Beatles from Mexico. I found a guy that had three of them. I asked how are we going to do this? He said under the back seat we simply weld a section of the tunnel that has the S/N of a real 1966 Beatle over the section of the tunnel that has the Mexican S/N. So technically you have a restored 1966 WW Beatle with 50 miles on it that was built around the data plate. I passed on that deal.
They advertised in the classifieds of Trade A Plane.
flygirl34q Wrote:
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> Isn't it great having a day like that, Leigh?? We
> are putting up our Christmas tree and finishing
> our outside decorating today while it's still
> fairly warm (for December!). I think that you are
> going to be sending us some of that Canadian cold
> air starting tomorrow. :( Thanks.
Lynn, I think that the air is actually Alaska air judging by where this Arctic system came from but whatever, it is beautiful to look outside with bright blue sky, white snow and no pressing need to go out, though I am going to meet a couple of friends at a restaurant this evening, one who flew in from Breckenridge Co. and the other from the UK. Their timing couldn't have been worse, weather-wise but it is pretty to look at and really is great flying weather since the air is so dry you can see the horizon as a sharp line. I have been up at night in this kind of system and from about 9000 ft you can clearly see the lights of both Edmonton and Calgary at the same time.
GM Wrote:
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> That sounds like a good friend of mine that owns
> an automotive repair facility. He has a smaller
> three bay building in the rear of the primary shop
> where he installs A/C in new Fords and he wanted
> to build a building connecting the two. Zoning
> would not approve the construction of a new
> building connecting the two buildings but did
> approve an addition to the original building. The
> addition went all the way to the new building and
> sealed inside the attic is about 15 feet of the
> roof from the original building complete with
> shingles. So he got his new addition which is
> really a building that connects the two.
>
> Another one is about ten years ago I was looking
> to import one of those non U.S. importable “new”
> 1966 VW Beatles from Mexico. I found a guy that
> had three of them. I asked how are we going to do
> this? He said under the back seat we simply weld a
> section of the tunnel that has the S/N of a real
> 1966 Beatle over the section of the tunnel that
> has the Mexican S/N. So technically you have a
> restored 1966 WW Beatle with 50 miles on it that
> was built around the data plate. I passed on that
> deal.
>
> They advertised in the classifieds of Trade A
> Plane.
There is a company based in Calgary that has been rebuilding Dehaviland Otters as long as they have a data plate from an original, all else is new but the plane is "restored". Aren't government regulations wonderful? Bureaucrats love the process and never worry about the objective.
