The International Cessna 170 Association

The job has been complete for some time now, but just now having time to write. The complete rebuild, cleaning, and new spring installation on the left door latch has worked wonders. Was a a bit difficult to install the new springs correctly, as the old ones were in pieces and the manual didn't say ...

This may come a bit late, but I put on a B&C starter last year prior to AirVenture. The old Delco was fine and was not going to replace it until it failed...and failed it did in a most spectacular way. The switch on the side of the starter failed...in the ON position. I noticed a bunch of cracke...

I found that I could not rotate the eccentric bushings to have the spar bolt on the fuselage side without part of the wing spar contacting the fuselage skin. In other words, I can have the bolt up, neutral to the outside, or down. I was trying to take one set of bushings around from bolt high to bol...

And it gets even better! When I went to remove the nut from the AN7 bolt on the rear spar, left wing, I found that it was just hand tight....I ran it off with my fingers 8O Of course the bolt itself was not going anywhere since it was in a complete bind with the two excentric bushings 180 degrees fr...

My springs have arrived, and it appears the door latch spring, #0411554 is of a new and improved design. I've never seen the original, but this new spring is not a single piece of flat spring steel. It is a dual coil spring similar to the one that goes on the handle, but much beefier. Somehow this n...

I finally got the rear spar bolt out of the right wing. No corrosion damage evident :D The bolt was being held in by misaligned excentric bushings. So I should change out the two smaller bolts to the inboard of the AN7 bolt? Easier to do this now while I have the fairing strip down. I've been drivin...

My parts manual did not show the breakdown of the primer assembly either...just the assembly as a whole, unless I overlooked something. On the search for O rings for my primer, I took the proper route and went to my A&P. So you know what he did? He pulls out this blue plastic box holding an asso...

Allow me to throw a twist into this thread. I've been thinking for some time about installing a pulseligt system on my aircraft to pulse each of the two wing lights in sync. I've also seen that Texas AeroPlastics has wingtips for the 170B that include forward facing halogen landing lights...and I've...

I have not tried to turn the bushings yet, but will go out this evening or tomorrow and give it a try before putting an air ratchet to work. I'd wait for the rigger to arrive, but I don't want him to have to sit around while I/we try to free up the bolts/bushings. If I can get everything freely turn...

You read my mind, George! It is INDEED great entertainment to go out to my hangar on a yucky day, turn on the beacon, bring up a comfy chair and a bottle of Guiness. It doesn't take long to be lulled into a nice nap watching that LED beacon pulsing away....only drawing 300ma so when I wake up I can ...

I'm back on the eccentric bushing trail again, trying to center up the bushings for the CPA rigger before he makes his visit. I have both nuts off, but the bolts refuse to move. I hope the problem is binding between the bushings, and not corrosion, but I do fear the worst here. On the advice of a re...

The cloud has moved off and I'm OK now....that I sat down a couple of nights ago with some fine Port Wine :lol: That sure is a nice latch assembly. The new springs are quite a bit heavier that the little fiddly things that go around the handle hinge pin as per original. I may just hold the original ...

I went ahead and tried the NAPA rings, but they are too high in profile to let the primer plunger go back into the tube. I'll visit my A&P on Monday and see if I can get the correct number. Have not tried ACE yet. I run both mogas and 100LL. Was on the Genuine Aircraft Hardware sight looking at ...

Well by now I have two O rings from NAPA on my work bench. NAPA confirmed that they are indeed suitable for use in fuel systems...if they were not suitable for fuel, NAPA would be in a bad situation since these O rings are used all over automotive engines with fuel, oil and hydraulics. BUT, since Br...

Uh-oh, this shopping trip for door latch/handle springs has me thinking of going the homebuilt route again so I can get my money's worth on parts. Hill Aircraft had the spring for the door handle....at $15 each, and the only outfit left in the country that has the latch spring is Avparts....at....ar...