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I agree with Tom.  If you put the clip up one you leaned out the mid range.  EGT's show a trend not an absolute, the plugs say you running lean.  EGT's can spike pretty quick if you hit a thermal or a bump and you unload the engine.  I like to keep mine closer to 105 on my gauge and that seems to keep the plugs happy as well.

Get that airstrip dried out mr, its time to fly up and play with the KF and dig in the dirt!  I got bid tires but no floats on the pacer  

The magazine tends to go more towards the Expensive Aircraft Association but the local guys I find are a good group of guys.  Most in our local chapter are not really experimental guys.  WE have a few but the majority are just guys that like to fly and get together to have a good time.  There is a lot of knowledge these old guys pass on and I kind of dig hanging out with them and listening to the stories.  When someone dings a bird they are quick to lend a hand getting it home and getting it back in the air too with loaner gear, props, struts etc.  I may not agree with EAA on a national level, but on the local level I am all about it. 

I am looking forward to getting out with the guys next weekend for a fly out clam dig adventure then roasting some brats on the beach and burning some air going out sight seeing.

Mine originally had the trim on the panel like yours.  I figured out pretty quickly that on landing I like to keep a hand on the stick and one on the throttle.  I moved the trim to the stick with a ray allen grip so I can bump it as speeds change and keep my hands on the main controls.  I used it a lot more than I thought I would.  Its nice having the PTT wired in as well so nothing is hanging down on cords to get wrapped up in.

How many sets of tail feathers do you have?  Looking for a set of 18 tail feathers for the pacer and have been buying versus making my own..  Nice score Mr!  Will be good to see progress soon.

Looking good!

Bob has put earlier model tanks in later model wings and vise versa.  He had to do a little bit of fairing, but when it was all said and done the airplane didn't know the difference and all have flown well.

The football tanks on the struts will get you another 10 gallons and the plane does not seem to know that they are there performance wise. 

Welcome to the dark side.  Don't ever be afraid to post up about any flying adventures here, we like to talk about anything that defies gravity here.

Well that sucks.  The politicians in this country have gone mad and I hope you folks remember this in November. 

I deleted the other 2 threads, must have been some posting issues this morning.

home depot... just about any hardware store..

I chucked mine up in a drill motor and used some sand paper to take a fraction off the OD so it did not squeeze down so tight when I was trying to put the pins in.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-5-16-in-O-D-x-3-16-in-I-D-x-10-ft-Pre-Cut-Polyethylene-Hose-HKP003-PE004/303132505

I have a bunch of delrin rod that I could turn down on the lather to make bushings with too. 

I didn't notice much of one if any at all

I don't think you can go overkill.  Most of us running bigger tires went with dual brake calipers at a minimum.  I like my brakes to work when I need them and not just be a gradual slow down.

I have hauled a lot of stuff using a Jet Sled strapped under mine like Chris did with the kayak.  Think I picked the last one up for under 30 bucks.  I always intended to get around to making a swing mount for it to make loading and unloading easier but I never did. 

Randy out playing with the slats

I came close to crying for ya when you sent me the pics.  Wish you were closer, I would give you a hand in the rebuild and get Dad back in the air ASAP.  Of course, if we stay on this 4x4 schedule it would make it easy to do an extended trip up there and give a hand.

I am going to put money on the good old cessna seat rails.  No way would one intentionally climb out like that on take off.  The seat sliding back on take off has killed more than a few I know of up here, he is beyond lucky to have walked away.

Hopefully when I get home this hitch we can get together and have some fun.  I am interested in the new mods you have done.  We had to go to a 4x4 hitch to minimize travel so I wont be home till the 6th now. 

I went through this on mine.  They had riveted the back cover plate on the starter housing in the firewall.  I drilled out the rivets and pulled the back plate off and was able to reach in with an extension and pull starter off.  I was on floats at the time and doing this all over water and managed to pull it off and reinstall with only dropping one nut in the lake.  It really was not that hard to do.  You can get a starter off ebay much cheaper than one from Rotax and it is a direct bolt on (pretty sure they are under a 100 bucks.  You can get the brush plate and brushes for around 40 bucks too if you do some digging, but for me it was just as easy to have a new starter in hand and bolt it on.  I did rebuild the old starter and have it sitting on the shelf in case I need one.

I got to play on ski's for one day and now its melting fast.  The lakes around here are full over overflow now. 

While Danny is throwing money at the cub..... Yesterday I did some testing on the sensinich 82" ground adjust prop (first flight was with my borer prop for baseline).  I was able to dial it in and went from a 17.5 second take off run to 9 second take off and have the same indicated cruise speed.  Time to climb from 1k to 2k holding 75 mph indicated dropped 12 seconds.  instant acceleration and you loose 13 pounds off the nose.... buddy was testing in his 180 HP cub and got similar if not even better numbers than I did.  Helped sell 4 props yesterday for him! 

I look at most of the reports and call BS on them... outrageous claims that can't be true.  Till we tested and recorded the numbers.  I was blown away!

The difference between this and a real sled is that I can ride mine and people don't assume I like to sleep with dudes...

is it electric start?  its the exact same thing as I have but I have ES on mine.  It is worlds better than the old polaris. 

 Good points.  I would say the triangular versus oval cut outs are a bit of a giveaway as well.  I must be slipping a bit in my old age

I am thinking avid speed wing ribs.  The Mod IV KF/Ribblet airfoil have difference hangers.

For the sled I LOVE my 2015 bearcat 570.  Wide track that will pull one hell of a load and its aircooled so when you pulling said load or running along packed trails pulling a groomer at a whopping 5-7 MPH it doesn't overheat.  To top it off its the most comfortable and easiest riding sled out there and the older I get the more comfort comes into play.  I can do  300+ mile day and I am not worn out or sore.

I can send you some drawing and pictures of what I have been building up here for groomers.  The key to these is the cheap electric winch on them so when you start getting bogged down you can hit the button and lift the front of it and it will just ride on the compaction pan and you don't really know its back there.  

I have also made them manually adjustable and while that works great on a trail it really sucks if you suddenly hit a soft spot and it starts eating a bit too much or if you want to get off the trail to turn around etc.  All in all, your looking at a day to cut and weld it out and about 300-400 in materials, but it will serve you for MANY years to come and is fairly light weight to boot.  It is 4' wide and 6' long on the ground plus the length of the tongue ( I think that's around 2.5').