More battery problems, Kadet Senior...

Wow...I've been working on these airplanes since back in November of 2018. When you stop flying for a few years, everything goes bad. I've repaired my portable glow driver, my power panel, my electric starter, my fuel pump, and pretty much all of the batteries in all of my airplanes. Oh well, at least it's winter and I have time to do it. When I pulled the Sig Kadet Senior down, I discovered a bunch of problems...bad flight battery, leaky fuel tank, and a broken exhaust header on the engine. Here, you'll see the bad battery and the packing from around the fuel tank that shows the evidence of a fuel tank leak. Hopefully, by the time warm weather is here, I'll be all repaired and ready to fly...here's a few pics from the tear down of my Senior. 

Ruh Roh.... Saito Exhaust Problem...

I have a Saito 100 I've had for several years. It's been a great engine, and has had it's share of abuse, including a straight in crash when a flight battery failed. I never noticed a problem until last week when I was out flying with a friend. I thought I saw something moving around below the engine area, so I did a slow, low flyby. Sure enough, it was the muffler canister dangling around, hanging on by the tank pressure line.

After landing, I discovered the head pipe had broken off, just past the lock nut on the engine side of the pipe.

The thread is m12 x 1.0. So, I'm now on a mission to locate a die to rethread an unused portion of the pipe and put it back in service. I'll update this, once I locate a die and hopefully make the repairs :-)

Dave AMA 119484
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