The International Cessna 170 Association

If this is a Boden wire control, a slight kink in the housing and wire will put some friction on it to keep it from creeping.

The simplest way is to install a set of C-175 wings on a pre-approved 337.

If your battery is really seven years old, it is just waiting for the worst possible place in the world to completely fail.

What is the result of the preliminary calculation using your present weight and balance data? I would suggest a new weighing if the present data is old.

All serious Cessna pilots havs diamond scars on their forehead.

The maintainence on a C-!70 is waaayyyy easier than on a C-172 simply because there is no hydraulic strut on the tail wheel.

The TCM IO-360 engine that I installed in my '52 C-170B came off the front of a Cessna C-337 and was equipped with a 24v starter and alternator (or generator). Since I was going to maintain the 12v system of my C-170, I decided to install a light weight, 12v, Sky Tec starter. On the first engine shu...

In regard to the removal of the parking brake hardware, is this an approved modification?
Does it require a "Notifying Decal" of some sort in the cockpit in addition to a log book entry?

In reading an above item this thread, I note a question of my installing a "D" model TCM IO-360 engine in my '52 C-170B on Tom Anderson's STC.
I questioned Tom about that at the time that I picked up the engine mount, and he allowed as how that would be OK.

Why didn't you simply install a new oil seal in your old starter? They only cost a couple of bucks and you don't have to grind off the part in the engine risking metal contamination in the guts of the engine.

My '52 model had two 4 inch venturis and seemed to do just fine. I never did think that the C-170 made a good airplane for flying "Hard" IFR. It just didn't seem to be enough airplane. That was, perhaps, a result of having flown mostly large airplanes such a transports and bombers that wer...

Perhaps you may not have the proper primer fitting in the botton if the intake manifold. If someone has inadvertantly installed a standard flare fitting. the primer pump will pump way to much fuel in on each stroke.

I've seen some outstanding paint jobs that came out of the shop in Red Bluff, CA. I don't know about their prices or whether they're still there. A lot of paint shops moved out of California because of the environmental regulations.

In view of the above comment, as I remember there seems to be VERY FEW C-170 aircraft thast are likely to pull over thirty inches of manifold pressure except maybe in parts of Death Valley, or the Salton Sea, in CA.

Ed,
If memory serves, I think it was an Oregon Purple Plum Can, They're my all time favorite!