The International Cessna 170 Association

Nice video, and thanks for sharing! I'm looking forward to following your adventures. You're in some really beautiful countryside.

This is very very nice. Great work. I am planning a very similar thing. May I ask you Jim, those three 275's, are they locked to their respective primary function? I mean, you are not able to use any of them as MFD and view moving map, traffic, weather etc? Was there anything that was particularly ...

While I would never take off with less than 1/4 tank of gas, it does figure into my flight planning. I plan to arrive with more than 1/4 tank so that if I muff the landing and have to go around, I'm not "taking off" with less than 1/4 tank. So 10.5 gallons to stay above 1/4 for go-arounds,...

Very nice plane and thanks for the history! Welcome!

Fooey. The avionics IA was certain that it had to be there and visible. Oh well... next time

I got the 170 back from the avionics shop Friday and have been exploring all the new toys! Can't wait for some good weather to see them all in action. With nothing good to rent locally to complete my instrument training, I thought it would be a "good thing" to upgrade the plane to IFR read...

Feels great! The first small step to really knowing the aircraft. Thank you and the Association for this incredible learning resource.

And another followup. After further cleaning, we found that the steering arm did indeed have a well-rounded detent. The pawl was very worn. As mentioned above, that was the cause of the steering arm play. Replacing arm, pawl, and bearing. While the bearing wasn't the cause of the steering arm play, ...

A followup. My A&P/IA took everything apart expecting to just clean, inspect, and regrease. What he found was the tailwheel bearing fell apart. The steering arm had just an inch of play but that pointed to a much larger problem. I'm glad that I didn't accept this play as normal.

The exploded parts diagram makes things really clear. And, there's a couple YouTube videos showing disassembly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-0i2MTe-A0 and assembly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1uAd0KSnCc which also helped. I'll see if I can work under the watchful eye of our local A&P ...

That makes a lot of sense. I can easily move the steering arm by hand quite a bit before it catches and moves the tailwheel. That may also be the cause of my "loose" rudder pedals mentioned in an earlier post. I was used to the feedback resistance from the tailwheel on the ground, and it n...

I searched the forum but couldn't find anything... how much fore and aft play should there be in the tailwheel steering arm? I move the rudder by hand and the steering arm moves about 10 to 15 degrees before it catches and the spring starts stretching. I know that some play is allowed, but how much ...

Called the A&P and described the problem. He agrees with you that it's probably a cracked rudder bar or bearing. He'll take an external look at it later today but can't get it into his hangar for repairs for a couple weeks as he's totally swamped. Glad it happened on the last practice landing of...

Thank you all for not laughing too loud as I tried to describe the problem :) Two important lessons: Don't go poking around in dark unfamiliar places without glasses and a flashlight. Don't try to remember what I saw in a dark unfamiliar place three days later. A little more debugging. It looks like...

Ah, I was afraid of that. If the pedal was worn I think it would have failed over time. This was sudden. Is there something I can do to confirm that the rigging is out? Or the pedal hitting the cylinder is the confirmation?