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Old 04-07-2002 | 03:46 PM
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nchrome
 
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Default Tailheavy - what to do
Originally posted by silvercloud
I agree with the other posts but I have another suggestion I had the same problem with my flybaby with adding weight I had originaly put about 1&1/2 lbs of lead in a compartment just behind the firewall and on the engine mount this much weight did not make me to happy so I had to figure a better way so what i did was put the weightas far forward as possible so i glassed the lead inside the nose of the cowl and put a heavy hub on the engine and reinforced the cowl mount with glass and added 2 more mounting screws and with moving the weight forward i used about 10ozs of weight so that saved alot.
Here's a little bit better Idea move the engine fowards on the mount. If you cant do that shim the engin forwards with a shimm behing the engine mount then relocate the cowl. This way you don't have to add so much weight to the plane . :idea:
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