The International Cessna 170 Association

Our impromptu fly in was a total success. Five members arrived in four planes at KADM for lunch at Jake's Joint. The name Jake's Joint makes one think it may be a ramshackle dump, but in fact it is very nice with a diverse menu and reasonable prices. It is only open for a few hours at lunch time so ...

This is an impromptu fly-in. There will be at least two planes at Ardmore Municipal for lunch Wednesday March 2. There is a good restaurant on the field or we can get a courtesy van and drive to an excellent BarBQue. The forecast is excellent. Plan for wheels down at 11:00.

I just booked the next to last room. Thanks for your help.

Has anyone contacted The Grand Motor Inn in Deming? The phone number on our website is wrong. I checked the GMI website and called a number there but it didn't go through. I used their website reservation service and it said they are sold out for July 9-15. I thought this could be true or maybe the ...

I made the baffling changes to seal the baffling tighter. I didn't like the way the oil cooler was sealed so I made the metal insert and extended the left side seal across the oil cooler baffle. It didn't make much difference, but was worth a try. The engine doesn't run hot (oil temp) in cruise, but...

leftfullview.jpg leftfronttop.jpg lefttop.jpg Here are some photos. Number 1 and 2 show the clearance with the top cowl from the left side. They were taken just a few days ago. The W end of the intake manifold is at the front. You can see that we had to carve out some clearance for the manifold. We...

Larry designed the engine mount. He used a mount from a Piper Seneca and modified it to fit the 170. So the 2.5 degree droop was built into the mount. He did widen the crank hole so the nuts on the prop would clear. It's interesting how much clearance he was able to get since he also moved the engin...

My mechanic friend, Larry, installed the IO360 in my 170A. I spent a considerable amount of time working on it with Larry's supervision. The prop is a McCauley with a C67 hub used on the T41. The spinner is from an early model 182. I got the spinner from the guy in Artesia. Larry cut radial slits ar...

When we working up the paper for my IO360 conversion I had to look up the weight of engine so we could run a stress analysis on the engine mount. This is what I found in the Operator's Manual. The basic engine, which includes lubrication system, accessory drives, starter adapter, intake system, moun...

It looks like you are not putting in endwalls or a concrete floor. Are you going to run the rebar under a dirt floor or maybe an asphalt floor? I know where George is coming from regarding rebar in the concrete floor and I was skeptical when the contractor told me that it was just unneeded extra exp...

I have a 50X50 hangar that is 20 ft high in the middle. I put it up in 1998. The directions for my building described 2 different methods to anchor the building. The first was to buy plates that would fasten to the concrete and then the metal arches would fasten to that. The second was to mold chann...

Mountain View is a fun little town. There is the Ozark Folk Center with music shows, free music nightly on the town square, at least two music shows, and trout fishing on the White River. There are numerous motels and B&Bs. There are also fishing resorts like Jack's located north of town on the ...

I have a Terra TXN 960, but I only use it for a backup. The Terra has plastic mechanical push button tuners. Since Terra is defunct there are no new replacements for the tuners. If you use it very much they eventually will not tune, anyway not to the frequency you want. One or two of the buttons wil...

I don't remember where I got the brake fairings. Someone ran ads in the 170 magazine back in the 1980s. I remembered those ads and looked up the phone number from the ad. That was in the early 1990s. Blueldr is probably right that it was John Pugielse in California. They were easy to install since t...

It looks like the problem is to change the key to match the mag switch and baggage. In that case you don't have to remove the 7/8 nut, or at least you don't on an A model. A previous owner had drilled a small hole just big enough for a screw driver through the inside door panel aligned with the back...