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Looking to getting a hold of a Cessna 310 1970 model maintenance manual. Need to balance the elevator. Any help would be appreciated[ we are a non profit historical aircraft restoration museum in OZ] ...

Interested in hearing from anyone that has installed fuel injection on a Jab 3300. Like the SDS em kits.Seems there are not too many current discussion on the web. Cheers

Don't get too concerned with the drilling process just de-burr everything.[Drilling is much more critical in pressurized aircraft which yours is not] Cheers [retired aircraft mech.]

The post [Single mom makes real money working from home] comes up as having a nasty virus embedded in it. Beware

Talked to Jab Aus and they cannot source the black floats anymore so back to white.After changing idle jet to 45 and freeing the balance tube blockage took the plane for a circuit and everything went ...

Hi mate

so how was it blocked..
is it something to watch when doing an install?
Chris..A small screw like the one on the back of a computer case was screwed into the carbi bayonet fitting and th ...

Found the fault,a blocked balance tube also adjusted the float level up a couple of mm and it purrs like a kitten.Just waiting for the weather to fine up [been the wettest Feb in OZ for decades] to go ...

Alan, full marks for your perseverance in the air with a problem that
would leave some on the ground.

What's the fuel supply set up?. In a Thruster I assume you still have
mechanical and electri ...

I have not really had a chance to play around with the throttle while concentrating on flying other then pushing the throttle [back over 2000rpm] in so as not to stall it and then once on short final ...

Spoke to the people at Jabiru today and in their testing, screwing the mixture in or out made very little difference to the engine operation.They are a bit baffled by the surging.They advised the thin ...

[quote="aerobiz1(at)gmail.com"]Is the LLD you drilled to 1.5mm the air bleed at the intake bellmouth or the fuel jet in the float bowl that feeds the starting jet(choke) ?

Yes it was at ...

I've been having trouble getting my mixtures correct as on turning base and bringing back the rpm below 2000 it starts to surge down to 1500rpm and then up 300 rpm and if I pull back below 1500 it sur ...

I ended up using large headed

I ended up using large headed [1/2 long x 1/8Dia] self taping screws on the bottom steel RHS tubes.On the hinge cover panel I put in anchor nuts .I also cut the sides of the canopy less, so that th ...

T87,

First, the Bing fitted to Jabiru engines (2200 and 3300) is a 94. The 64 is used on Rotax 912 series engines.

Which jet drilled out to 1.6 mm are you talking about? Some folks have enlarged ...

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How much difference is there in the operation of the idle stage [fitted in a 3300A] once it has been drilled out to 1.6mm ?? and what is the approx number of turns from stop are yo ...

Has anyone adjusted the timing on the 3300 solid lifter to the following:

Note that late-model 3300 engines

The new part has been indexed to give 20° BTDC for spark timing instead of the orig ...

After 15hrs TT [last week] my Aileron Ray Allen LED indicator stopped working as well.Elevator LED indicator working just fine so far.Bit of a pain in the neck as mine are located on the center panel ...

By using the new nut you are gaining almost a 50% increase in thread take up,thus the load is less per thread which in turn reduces the chance of breakage.Longer studs /bolts are available if so desir ...

A local flight training center that has been using Jabiru aircraft for the past 12yrs, swears by the new nut modification,they found that the new nuts can be torqued more easily [the small nuts feel l ...