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Guys,

I'm having a mag problem that has me stumped. Dennis Savarese, Doug Sapp, and George Coy have been very helpful, but I thought maybe somebody has seen this before and knows the answer.

I i ...

I have at least two bad leads on one of my mags and wanted to test them with a hi voltage lead tester I borrowed. I just installed these leads with a new auto plug conversion kit and suspect they have ...

I’ve seen this before on my plane several times. Your compressor may be just fine. Try tightening and re-safety wiring the banjo fitting that attaches the air line to the compressor. When the compre ...

As I recently posted, I installed Dennis Savarese's auto plug conversion and am very happy with it.

I was wondering what exact plug you guys have found to work best?

Thanks,
Steve Dalton

I'm probably late to the party, but converting to auto plugs and wires with the Dennis Savarese conversion kit is GREAT. You can find it at yak-52.com. (I have NOTHING to do with Dennis or his product ...

A couple years ago I watched as one of our NE guys tried to make a left turn onto a taxiway in his -52TD just as his right brake froze up. The nose went over, with a high power setting, and the prop h ...

Folks,

I have finally convinced a friend to buy a Yak-52. He is actively searching now.

There are two Yaks on Barnstormers he is interested in. One is in Seabrook , TX, and the other in Edgewate ...

I needed some replacement light bulbs for my Yak's landing gear and flap indicators. I ordered some BA7S bulbs, which BTW come in a package labeled 3899 bulbs.

They look fine except they have a lip ...

Dave, thanks for the link. However, it is for 9mm bulbs, which I guess fits a CJ. The Yak takes 7mm bulbs...Ba7s bulbs.

Cliff, Thanks for your link also. I had already found it, but the minimum ord ...

Does anyone have a link to a site that sells LED bulbs to replace the 7mm Ba7s bulbs in the Yak's Landing gear/flap indicator lights?

The only ones I can find are 12 volt, or are on sites where you ...

Elmar, great idea!

Doug, are the Chinese wrenches you carry the same as the Russian ones with a T-handle at the end to "hand-tighten" the nuts?

Thanks,
Steve

The Russian cylinder base wrench in my tool kit is not the greatest at reaching some nuts. Nor is it possible to set a real torque value using it. I *think* (from my fading memory) the nuts are 14mm, ...

Awesome guys, worked like a champ.

I found it worked best with a 12" long 2x4 in the cylinder, lay the cylinder on its side, and jam the free end of the 2x4 against my bench's vise. This allow ...

I have two unserviceable cylinders on my work bench that I am going to sandblast, cleanup, and make into lamps for my office. I have salvaged everything off the cylinders except the valves and springs ...

There was absolutely nothing wrong with the Russian/Romanian engineering concerning the oil coolers on the TW. I own the first TW ever made and the oil cooler (and the cooler housing) is without a si ...

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OK guys, I'm sure this is a stupid question but:

Here in the NE all you can buy for the past several years is mogas with ethanol. It is us ...

OK guys, I'm sure this is a stupid question but:

Here in the NE all you can buy for the past several years is mogas with <10% ethanol. It is used EVERYDAY in TENS of MILLIONS of cars (from my n ...

Just my two cents for what it's worth:

In years past, I burned a lot of mogas in my -52TW, hundreds of hours. It ran better (lower fuel flow on JPI for same cruise power setting and cleaner plugs) ...

I experienced the exact same symptoms several years ago.

I had taken my tach generator unit (a UMA tach generator) off the air start assembly to repair it. When I removed it I failed to notice that ...

Thanks Dennis, I'll keep ya posted.

BTW, if I need to replace this chip detector who has one? Doug? Jill?

Cheers,
Steve