hole in cowling for brackett filter?
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hole in cowling for brackett filter?
My 140 has a Brackett air filter. The cowling has an ugly hole to clear the filter frame, with a kind of "field-fit" level of quality. The hole is definitely not to the kind of quality I'd expect from the factory. I've never seen a factory air filter, though. Can anyone comment on this? Does a factory filter installation have a more polished cowling hole? Any pics of a factory setup?
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Re: hole in cowling for brackett filter?
The hole should be the same. My guess is your cowl has been repaired, or "modified" to fit sagging engine mounts. Is it the right filter? BA-4106?
There's not much to it; it's just a hole. I have a couple of thousand pictures from the old forum, unindexed, of course. That hole is not real photogenic, I guess. Here's a picture of a cowl someone is restoring.
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There's not much to it; it's just a hole. I have a couple of thousand pictures from the old forum, unindexed, of course. That hole is not real photogenic, I guess. Here's a picture of a cowl someone is restoring.
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