Aerovee Hours

[n982sx]

I have 415 hours on my Aerovee with no rebuild.

I have had to replace both ignition coils. One at around 200 hours and the other at about 300 hours. I missed flying into Airventure last year because my little trigger magnet flew out of the cap. It got replaced right after Airventure. That is about the extent of my engine issues.

Alas, I don't think I'll be putting a lot of hours on it now as my newest build is at the airport and should be ready for first flight in late June. I am planning on keeping my Sonex however, and it might be my next project. Rebuilding the engine just to get a look inside and installing ads-b out to get it ready for 2020.

After the retooling I think it will be time to sell as I was keeping it as a Sport Pilot option. With BasicMed that need is going away. It's nice having a 'fleet' of airplanes but I think one will be enough in the future.

It has certainly fulfilled the mission I had for it but my wife and I are ready for an airplane with a new mission, a nice big and fast comfortable cruiser.

[Onex107]

Onex107 has 170 hours on it as of yesterday. The only problem I had was one cylinder was using oil. Plug fouling. I pulled the head and cylinder to find a bad oil ring. A few dollars for a set of rings and a couple of hours to put it back together and I'm using approximately 4 oz of oil in 25 hours. By doing that I also find there is a design change in oil rings from when I assembled the engine. The new ones are more fail safe. There was a little tab on the ends of the separator band that broke off letting the band over lap at the ends loosing the tension on the two wiper rings. The new one had small red and green bosses on the ends and the instruction that if you can't see the colored ends when you assemble it's not right. Would do it all again. Twenty years of the C-150 and $1000 annual inspections are over.