Did anyone els notice how close this man got those plugs or injectors or whatever they were. To spec by feel befor he got the torque wrench on to it. That was some good shit right there 💪👌
You got so lucky with this inspector. Great job. I see in many channels where they jump in and try to start it after many years sitting. I don't know the back ground prep. But after being an aircraft mechanic for many years it sends chills up my back thinking of all of those parts trying to move with out being inspected and soaked before even trying to start it. Again great job.
As a retired Marine Engineer(Operating Engineer) I am enjoying this channel very much. I have learned a few things as well. I see that your AME is a very patient person and a great teacher. As far as the oil as mentioned it is the trend that needs to be watched. When I sent oil out for analysis if a reading cams back high I would wait wait for a while and redo do it. Most of the time the second one was okay. Can't wait for the next video. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I am Grateful you share your videos. I owned a 1961 172c for over 28yr I have touched literally every in part of my Cessna through those years and your videos allows me to visually relive those joyful happy moments and sounds of a Classic Bird and Cont O-300D. Unfortunately a hurricane significantly damage it l did put her back together but because of personal life drama I had to let her go before I got to fly her again. You have a Great Girl there I know she will treat you well and give you wonderful memories. Happy Flying !!!
I had no idea this channel existed until the cookbook unboxing the other day. Now I'm having a great time watching this whole process! Wonderful content, Glen!
Glenn, I am a new pilot and I sell aircraft consumables. This was a great visual for me to understand more about piston engines. One of my customers who is a very experienced and knowledgeable mechanic has planes with only screen filters and is happy without a spin on filter as long as the oil is changed often enough to prevent it from becoming acidic. Oil sampling is a great idea.
Congratulations Glen! I Started flying on a dollar seventy- two out of Mount Hope a long time ago. Since retired after twenty some-odd thousand hours, I can now live vicariously through your hangar and cooking channels (best of all worlds)
Glen... This is Glen from down here in western Oregon.. I stumbled across your channel and have watched most of what you have posted!!! I am kinda jealous, but excited for you that you got a stellar looking plane for a stellar price!!! They are always a work in progress as you already know and understand.. Maybe some day in your adventures, you can bring that down here to 77S where I live.. But for now, as with many channels that I watch, I’m gonna live my dreams through your eyes... Thanks for posting good stuff for us to watch!!!! See you on the next video Glen...
You saw a mock-up of an Avro Arrow? That's awesome! Your plane looks like a sweet plane, and I never even thought about footage of you flying her, so now I'm excited.
as a student pilot I really love the insight into maintenance your videos have been giving, so cool to see how it all works from a new perspective not covered in ground school!
The watching-over-the-shoulder effect using the Go Pro is great! I'm jealous. You can't inspect Lycoming cams like that unless you have the cylinders off. About the only thing you can do is check for fine steel slivers in the oil filter. I take the filter apart and cut out the element, wash it in varsol, then swirl a neodium magnet through the dirty varsol looking for fine steel shavings. It's always a hearts topping moment of truth, but all I ever see is a bit of ferrous paste accumulated on the magnet. I bought a bluetooth endoscope off Amazon to borescope the cylinders, looking for scoring and checking the exhaust valve. Normally the exhaust valve should look like a bullseye with an even heat pattern, but because I run on mogas, it just looks like an off-white disc from an ash buildup from something in the fuel, the way they look on cars. Anyway cylinder borescope is actually more useful than a differential pressure test.
Your set up photography is awesome and I must say that your photography on the move is splendid also. Chasing Chris around, the audio and the shots were great!
What a beautiful Cessna, perhaps one of the best buys I've seen for a aircraft in it's class! I very much look forward to seeing you taking it up on it's maiden voyage around the patch. Glen, you brought up a very good point about the perspective buyer/ pilot being involved in the inspection process with your AME. It indeed gives you so much knowledge of everything whereas you gain a intimate knowledge of all of it's mechanical workings throughout the entire aircraft. Once again, I am also impressed with your AME and his great communication skills, along with you asking the relevant questions about each component in question. Overall it all just makes for an excellent video!
I am just over near coldwater. We go to show and shine at Edenvale every year love the arrow mock up display every time i see it i just keep dreaming what it could have been.
In the 80’s I flew to the Bahamas quite often in single engine club planes. I’m glad I hadn’t seen this video then LOL 😆. Now I wish I had gotten to know the mechanic.
I'm not a pilot and I've never owned an aircraft or flew in one this size but ... I really enjoy the exposure this channel brings. Thanks for taking us along Glen whether it's cooking, cocktails, craft ale or the Cessna.
@@Xondar11223344 Nah, dude. Even had the Arrow gone ahead, it would have been obsolete by now, because you can only SLEP an airframe so much before it's no longer feasible. BUT things might have been different, with us building our own fighters, and still having a kick ass aviation industry here at home.
@@GrizzAxxemann Nah man, if the Arrow was built today, it totally wouldn't be obsolete because of missile technology and it could totally take an F-22 Raptor in a dog-fight even though it was never designed to do such a thing.
Great series and much appreciated. Love the way Chris speaks, thinks and works all at the same pace :-) Early PPL myself so this has been really useful, cheers.
What a great start to your channel you have here. It's been great to watch you take this wonderful airplane and bring it back to flying condition. I love the this old airplane you've found and are bringing back.
G,day Glen's Hanger from Sydney Australia. Chrome cylinders, exceptional news. Great troubleshooting finding the generator fues and explaining the pitting and spalling effect on cam shaft. I wondered way a plane had a spinner: not just presentation. With chrome plated cylinders, you could space oil changes more than (25) hours. Thankyou for sharing your experience with this 172. Best wishes. 🌏🇦🇺
Really enjoying the channel; have recently taken over CAMO responsibilities for our group aircraft based in Leicestershire in the UK. A Robin DR400 so nothing like a C172B. The annual walk through was still really great and I learned a lot thanks. Our A/C has just gone in for its annual. Keep up the good work
I thought it was going going to take off across the tarmac for a little "test drive" but happy to hear the noisiness inside the cockpit even if it's not quite what it should sound like yet and the propeller running. It's a good start.
So it turns out that my wife enjoys your cooking channel. I have no idea on how we realized that we both enjoy your content but it was a great laugh when we figured it out. She won't watch this channel with me but it just gives us one more thing in common.
The check up is pretty much flying colors. A few minor fixes but, you got yourself a nice Cessna there Glen. Can't wait to see the Hugh Hefner Sky Lounge and overnight accomadations.....Ha-Ha!
I have not been in a Cessna since before my father died. Even though there is a GPS on the board, all the old controls and instruments were just as I remember them. He used to navigate by road maps sometimes...lol
This makes me want to find "Sky King" reruns. In 1971 I had the chance to go halves with my dad buying a membership into a flying club that owned a Piper Cherokee. I bought a car instead, and passed up a potential life changing opportunity in favor of something that wore out a few years later. This series really could stand alone as a tutorial on effective decision making.
Nice work Glen! Not a pilot here but my son just got is license less than 100 hours but it has been his dream since he was a little one. Dad just keep nudging him to just do it!
I can’t recommend getting a tire all oily like that. Just this summer, I had a spare oil bottle leak into the trunk of my car. The spare tire sat in the oil for some length of time. The rubber softened and swelled and, eventually the tire delaminated and ruptured from the air pressure inside it.
Great point - but where the drains are located on this engine, there is almost no alternative than to get oil everywhere. It is cleaned off almost immediately, however editing removes that context. I should have shown the complete 15-20 minutes of through cleaning at the end.
Great video...my first owner assisted annual with my 172D happens this weekend and it was good to see a similar 172 going through the annual. I helped with two annuals with a 150G that I owned prior to the 172D, but this will be a little different.
I'm really enjoying your videos. I'm motivated to check the bulletin boards of local FBOs to see if someone locally has a deal like this. Can't wait to see you fly her!
Congrats on the purchase! I know nothing about planes, and I highly doubt I will ever get a pilots license, but I really enjoyed watching this series so far and look forward to seeing it up in the air!
I was so excited thinking that Julie and I would fly to Osh in 2022... But before we bought the plane we were already committed to a Fan Trip to Mexico City with our other Channel @Glen And Friends Cooking - so 2023?
Hey... that looks like that cooking guy! What's he doing on an aviation channel? (No two more terrifying words in the English language than an A&P/AME's saying... "Something's wrong." Phew. Nice to hear it was just a fuse. I wonder how much a 50 cent fuse costs when it's "aviation certified"...)
Would you mind posting or making a video on nicks and knacks needing fixing or a video on fixing them? I find the mechanical part of planes fascinating
We will be filming everything we fix along the way - coming up will be videos about stripping the interior, stripping the outside, and fixing minor snags in the engine bay.
When did they stop painting the Position Numbers on the Snowbirds jets? I remember for years they were painted 1 through 11, with 9 of them being show use, and the other two for spares/ferrying team members around to shows. That Arrow mockup was AWESOME! I'm going to have to get out that way to check it out one of these years. Any chance that Chris would be willing to do a Q&A/AMA about being an AME or his take on general aviation in Canada?
It's interesting, and perhaps not surprising, to see that people were/are doing the same thing with aircraft as with automobiles and real estate. Desperate enough to buy that they're willing to throw caution to the wind, and extra money on top, to avoid someone else doing the same from buying it out from under them.
Awesome content! Love all the technical stuff. Just gutted my '94 Corolla just to see the inner working and do a major overhaul. Was it needed. No. Is it fun/educational/worth it? Absolutely :)
Loving this video series Glen. It's every aviation enthusiasts dream to buy an airplane, and this is a great insight into what is involved in buying second hand, and doing the plane up to your own personal specs. Really looking forward to what you have planned for her. Please don't feel you need to do short videos. I love the long format videos. Excited for your next one. 👍
Awesome videos! Haven’t seen anything this in depth before. Would have expected the suction level to come up a little higher when running up at the higher RPM. Could be an issue with that regulator.
There isn't a suction pump on aircraft of this vintage - any 'suction' is created by a venturi system on the outside of the fuselage. Full suction doesn't occur (and the suction instruments don't work) until the aircraft reaches about 40 knots.
I'm not completely sure what year Cessna added a pump instead of the venturi; but any airplane that you see one or two 'horns' or what look like air horns on the fuselage just in front of the doors, don't have the pumps.
I had to purchase a spinner for a 172b. Found the assembly for around $600 US. I think I found on ebay about a year ago. There were a few available there.
Did anyone els notice how close this man got those plugs or injectors or whatever they were. To spec by feel befor he got the torque wrench on to it. That was some good shit right there 💪👌
So cool to be able to see inside the engine with that long camera!
Glen between cooking, aviation and beer brewing you're a Renaissance man.
That look of "Oh Sh*!" when there was generator problem was heart wrenching! Just a fuse. Whew, absolute relief. She purred on second start up though.
Shirt matching the plane in the intro !? Such a pro move Glen ! ! :D
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. Can't wait to see her fly
🚧🚧Outstanding informative video Sir😇😇👍👍 Cheers 🍻🍻🚧🚧
You got so lucky with this inspector. Great job. I see in many channels where they jump in and try to start it after many years sitting. I don't know the back ground prep. But after being an aircraft mechanic for many years it sends chills up my back thinking of all of those parts trying to move with out being inspected and soaked before even trying to start it. Again great job.
She gon' be the Queen of the skies!
As a retired Marine Engineer(Operating Engineer) I am enjoying this channel very much. I have learned a few things as well. I see that your AME is a very patient person and a great teacher. As far as the oil as mentioned it is the trend that needs to be watched. When I sent oil out for analysis if a reading cams back high I would wait wait for a while and redo do it. Most of the time the second one was okay. Can't wait for the next video. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I'm an AME. This guy knows his stuff. Meat and potatoes.
I am Grateful you share your videos. I owned a 1961 172c for over 28yr
I have touched literally every in part of my Cessna through those years and your videos allows me to visually relive those joyful happy moments and sounds of a Classic Bird and Cont O-300D. Unfortunately a hurricane significantly damage it
l did put her back together but because of personal life drama I had to let her go before I got to fly her again. You have a Great Girl there I know she will treat you well and give you wonderful memories.
Happy Flying !!!
I had no idea this channel existed until the cookbook unboxing the other day. Now I'm having a great time watching this whole process! Wonderful content, Glen!
Glenn, I am a new pilot and I sell aircraft consumables. This was a great visual for me to understand more about piston engines. One of my customers who is a very experienced and knowledgeable mechanic has planes with only screen filters and is happy without a spin on filter as long as the oil is changed often enough to prevent it from becoming acidic. Oil sampling is a great idea.
I'm impressed with his experience and professionalism.
Chris does a great job - so glad he's leading my team!
Oh my that engine, sounds like an old school bus. I love it.
Congratulations Glen! I Started flying on a dollar seventy- two out of Mount Hope a long time ago. Since retired after twenty some-odd thousand hours, I can now live vicariously through your hangar and cooking channels (best of all worlds)
Glen... This is Glen from down here in western Oregon.. I stumbled across your channel and have watched most of what you have posted!!! I am kinda jealous, but excited for you that you got a stellar looking plane for a stellar price!!! They are always a work in progress as you already know and understand.. Maybe some day in your adventures, you can bring that down here to 77S where I live.. But for now, as with many channels that I watch, I’m gonna live my dreams through your eyes... Thanks for posting good stuff for us to watch!!!! See you on the next video Glen...
You saw a mock-up of an Avro Arrow? That's awesome!
Your plane looks like a sweet plane, and I never even thought about footage of you flying her, so now I'm excited.
as a student pilot I really love the insight into maintenance your videos have been giving, so cool to see how it all works from a new perspective not covered in ground school!
Keep the maintenance and repair videos coming. I cannot get enough of these.
You are going to enjoy this airplane sooooo much Glen. Good point on the oil reports.
The watching-over-the-shoulder effect using the Go Pro is great! I'm jealous. You can't inspect Lycoming cams like that unless you have the cylinders off. About the only thing you can do is check for fine steel slivers in the oil filter. I take the filter apart and cut out the element, wash it in varsol, then swirl a neodium magnet through the dirty varsol looking for fine steel shavings. It's always a hearts topping moment of truth, but all I ever see is a bit of ferrous paste accumulated on the magnet. I bought a bluetooth endoscope off Amazon to borescope the cylinders, looking for scoring and checking the exhaust valve. Normally the exhaust valve should look like a bullseye with an even heat pattern, but because I run on mogas, it just looks like an off-white disc from an ash buildup from something in the fuel, the way they look on cars. Anyway cylinder borescope is actually more useful than a differential pressure test.
I'm liking this channel so much, it shows very openly what it usually you don't get to see about planes
Very excited for you! Can't wait to see it break into the skyline - got goosebumps when it started up!
Your set up photography is awesome and I must say that your photography on the move is splendid also. Chasing Chris around, the audio and the shots were great!
What a beautiful Cessna, perhaps one of the best buys I've seen for a aircraft in it's class! I very much look forward to seeing you taking it up on it's maiden voyage around the patch. Glen, you brought up a very good point about the perspective buyer/ pilot being involved in the inspection process with your AME. It indeed gives you so much knowledge of everything whereas you gain a intimate knowledge of all of it's mechanical workings throughout the entire aircraft. Once again, I am also impressed with your AME and his great communication skills, along with you asking the relevant questions about each component in question. Overall it all just makes for an excellent video!
Very satisfying watching it being broken down and then see it start up
I am just over near coldwater. We go to show and shine at Edenvale every year love the arrow mock up display every time i see it i just keep dreaming what it could have been.
In the 80’s I flew to the Bahamas quite often in single engine club planes. I’m glad I hadn’t seen this video then LOL 😆. Now I wish I had gotten to know the mechanic.
I always love to be involved with when doing a compression check with the A&P Mechanic and I’ve enjoyed watching the work that’s being done
Following this channel. Enjoying it very much.
I'm not a pilot and I've never owned an aircraft or flew in one this size but ... I really enjoy the exposure this channel brings. Thanks for taking us along Glen whether it's cooking, cocktails, craft ale or the Cessna.
Congratulations on your purchase Glen, I'm looking forward to watching your progress. I hope you have many enjoyable hours in it... 🇬🇧👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
That one time TH-cam gets a recommendation correct. The purveyor of fine food and cocktails is also a pilot!
I'm really enjoying the new channel, Glen. Keep up the good work.
Ah the Arrow, beautiful and tragic. What might have been.
Instead of F-35s, we should just rebuild a fleet of Arrows LOL.
@@Xondar11223344 Nah, dude. Even had the Arrow gone ahead, it would have been obsolete by now, because you can only SLEP an airframe so much before it's no longer feasible. BUT things might have been different, with us building our own fighters, and still having a kick ass aviation industry here at home.
@@GrizzAxxemann Nah man, if the Arrow was built today, it totally wouldn't be obsolete because of missile technology and it could totally take an F-22 Raptor in a dog-fight even though it was never designed to do such a thing.
Great series and much appreciated. Love the way Chris speaks, thinks and works all at the same pace :-) Early PPL myself so this has been really useful, cheers.
Can’t wait to see you and Julie start taking trips in that bad boy!
I know nothing about planes but the mechanical engineering elements are very interesting, great channel, looking forward to seeing it flying.
What a great start to your channel you have here. It's been great to watch you take this wonderful airplane and bring it back to flying condition. I love the this old airplane you've found and are bringing back.
Keep Chris. He already knows your machine. Snags are a common.
G,day Glen's Hanger from Sydney Australia.
Chrome cylinders, exceptional news.
Great troubleshooting finding the generator fues and explaining the pitting and spalling effect on cam shaft.
I wondered way a plane had a spinner: not just presentation.
With chrome plated cylinders, you could space oil changes more than (25) hours.
Thankyou for sharing your experience with this 172.
Best wishes.
🌏🇦🇺
Yay! I'm looking to buy a 177B myself, so this is awesome!
Really enjoying the channel; have recently taken over CAMO responsibilities for our group aircraft based in Leicestershire in the UK. A Robin DR400 so nothing like a C172B. The annual walk through was still really great and I learned a lot thanks. Our A/C has just gone in for its annual. Keep up the good work
I thought it was going going to take off across the tarmac for a little "test drive" but happy to hear the noisiness inside the cockpit even if it's not quite what it should sound like yet and the propeller running. It's a good start.
Thanks Glen. Fantastic video series so far. Looking forward to more!
So it turns out that my wife enjoys your cooking channel. I have no idea on how we realized that we both enjoy your content but it was a great laugh when we figured it out. She won't watch this channel with me but it just gives us one more thing in common.
The check up is pretty much flying colors. A few minor fixes but, you got yourself a nice Cessna there Glen. Can't wait to see the Hugh Hefner Sky Lounge and overnight accomadations.....Ha-Ha!
That Snowbirds jet though 🤤 What a beauty!
Wait. You fly too?? Great. Another channel I need to subscribe to. :D
Unreal series already. Great work Glen!
I have not been in a Cessna since before my father died. Even though there is a GPS on the board, all the old controls and instruments were just as I remember them. He used to navigate by road maps sometimes...lol
Congratulations on your purchase Glen, I'm looking forward to watching your progress. I hope you have many enjoyable hours in it... 👍🏼🇬🇧
Thankyou and congratulations on your plane, good luck I will be following
This makes me want to find "Sky King" reruns. In 1971 I had the chance to go halves with my dad buying a membership into a flying club that owned a Piper Cherokee. I bought a car instead, and passed up a potential life changing opportunity in favor of something that wore out a few years later. This series really could stand alone as a tutorial on effective decision making.
Excellent series. The only thing on this one I can'tbelieve that he just allowed the oil to drip all over the front tyre and hanger floor.
I'm really looking forward to seeing this project.
Nice work Glen! Not a pilot here but my son just got is license less than 100 hours but it has been his dream since he was a little one. Dad just keep nudging him to just do it!
Wait, what? You cook and fly as well?? Strewth! Subscribed to the max, woo-hoo :-)
I can’t recommend getting a tire all oily like that. Just this summer, I had a spare oil bottle leak into the trunk of my car. The spare tire sat in the oil for some length of time. The rubber softened and swelled and, eventually the tire delaminated and ruptured from the air pressure inside it.
Great point - but where the drains are located on this engine, there is almost no alternative than to get oil everywhere. It is cleaned off almost immediately, however editing removes that context. I should have shown the complete 15-20 minutes of through cleaning at the end.
Great video...my first owner assisted annual with my 172D happens this weekend and it was good to see a similar 172 going through the annual. I helped with two annuals with a 150G that I owned prior to the 172D, but this will be a little different.
love that plane Glen
I'm really enjoying your videos. I'm motivated to check the bulletin boards of local FBOs to see if someone locally has a deal like this. Can't wait to see you fly her!
Could be the best model Cessna ever built !
Congrats Glen, looking forward to seeing you up in the sky
keep the videos coming ❤️❤️
New sub from the UK, watching with interest :)
The Tutor is very reminiscent of the Jet Provost and Cessna T-37 - similar requirements leading to similar configurations.
I love watching you work on Charlie. Yes, I'm naming the plane Charlie until you have a proper name.
Really enjoying this series. Keep it up!
Congrats on the purchase! I know nothing about planes, and I highly doubt I will ever get a pilots license, but I really enjoyed watching this series so far and look forward to seeing it up in the air!
Really enjoying this Glen. Thanks!
thank you for your videos
Glad everything is moving smoothly for you! Maybe we’ll catch you at Oshkosh next year.
I hope he brings it to Oshkosh as well.
I was so excited thinking that Julie and I would fly to Osh in 2022... But before we bought the plane we were already committed to a Fan Trip to Mexico City with our other Channel @Glen And Friends Cooking - so 2023?
@@GlensHangar That would be great Glen. Hope to see you there.
totally Awesome!
Looks like you got yourself a great deal !
Great
Loving these videos, Glen.
Very Kool !
Hey... that looks like that cooking guy! What's he doing on an aviation channel? (No two more terrifying words in the English language than an A&P/AME's saying... "Something's wrong." Phew. Nice to hear it was just a fuse. I wonder how much a 50 cent fuse costs when it's "aviation certified"...)
Chris is fair - thankfully.
Thank u Captain
Would you mind posting or making a video on nicks and knacks needing fixing or a video on fixing them? I find the mechanical part of planes fascinating
We will be filming everything we fix along the way - coming up will be videos about stripping the interior, stripping the outside, and fixing minor snags in the engine bay.
When did they stop painting the Position Numbers on the Snowbirds jets? I remember for years they were painted 1 through 11, with 9 of them being show use, and the other two for spares/ferrying team members around to shows.
That Arrow mockup was AWESOME! I'm going to have to get out that way to check it out one of these years.
Any chance that Chris would be willing to do a Q&A/AMA about being an AME or his take on general aviation in Canada?
I'll ask him.
Thank you for sharing
I don't think the footage is rough at all.. love the AME footage.
You’ve got me hooked.
Loving this series🙂.
It's interesting, and perhaps not surprising, to see that people were/are doing the same thing with aircraft as with automobiles and real estate. Desperate enough to buy that they're willing to throw caution to the wind, and extra money on top, to avoid someone else doing the same from buying it out from under them.
Nice!
You should invite the seller over and cook them a spectacular meal especially for what they sold it to you for.
Good stuff Glen.
Awesome video!
I have the same exact philosophy. In todays world buying an aircraft has been difficult.
Awesome content! Love all the technical stuff. Just gutted my '94 Corolla just to see the inner working and do a major overhaul. Was it needed. No. Is it fun/educational/worth it? Absolutely :)
Loving this video series Glen. It's every aviation enthusiasts dream to buy an airplane, and this is a great insight into what is involved in buying second hand, and doing the plane up to your own personal specs. Really looking forward to what you have planned for her. Please don't feel you need to do short videos. I love the long format videos. Excited for your next one. 👍
Glen, there is an aircraft boneyard in north texas... lots of old birds out in the sand... might be able to get a used spinner that way?
The mechanic uses a serious torque wrench.
Awesome videos! Haven’t seen anything this in depth before. Would have expected the suction level to come up a little higher when running up at the higher RPM. Could be an issue with that regulator.
There isn't a suction pump on aircraft of this vintage - any 'suction' is created by a venturi system on the outside of the fuselage. Full suction doesn't occur (and the suction instruments don't work) until the aircraft reaches about 40 knots.
@@GlensHangar oh ok. Makes sense. I’ve been training in my fathers 1965 172F and it has the same regulator, but with the pump.
I'm not completely sure what year Cessna added a pump instead of the venturi; but any airplane that you see one or two 'horns' or what look like air horns on the fuselage just in front of the doors, don't have the pumps.
I had to purchase a spinner for a 172b. Found the assembly for around $600 US. I think I found on ebay about a year ago. There were a few available there.
This included the spinner and backplate.
Thanks! When we were looking there wasn't anything used out there that we could find - but we're sorted now.