I'm guessing that you are not sponsored by Mooney. Love the honest matter-of-fact approach you take to this.

Enjoying watching your videos. I'm a A&P mechanic working in Africa on beach king Airs for the Army and I am a pilot. I'm looking at buying a mooney when I get back to the states. Would love to talk to you and other Mooney owners

I've worked in brand new 172s back to M models, diamonds, pipers...pretty much everything. I appreciate the access to things in the belly of the mooney, working on brake cylinders is really annoying but for Mooney it's in the belly along with most everything else.

Mooney actually thought about maintenance on the rear of the engine, the bottom engine mount bolts run across the airframe and the top fore and aft so you can put a stand under the tail and a strap with a hoist on the prop then remove the upper engine mount bolts from the firewall. you can then lower the hoist and let the engine pivot forward to get to all the accessories on the rear of the engine. For the oil filter you can poke a hole in it and use compressed air to blow the oil out of it and back into the engine cutting way down on the amount that would drip out when removing it, also fashion a small drip catcher to place under the filter to catch any oil that drips out. A Mooney is not the worst to work on but it's also not the easiest.

Very informative, thanks for sharing; hard to find Mooney maintenance videos..Steady that video somehow bud, would be awesome! Keep em comin. First video of yours I watched. Well done.

Glad I found your channel! Love the Mooney! Hope to fly one someday soon. Keep up the great work!

The videos just keep improving. I'm really rooting for the channel. C-ya!

I just stumbled into your chanel and really like your "as I am" approach. Please keep it up ! We're all average in varying degrees. I just removed my cowling in my 177RG last night and will never snivel about it again! Also thanks for the links to Vince's chanel. By chance he's just a hanger row over from me. (small world)

Really interesting to see how the Mooney is constructed. I would have expected everything to be fixed on an internal frame I guess it's weight thing or as in my job, the manufacturers don't think anyone will ever need to work on it 😊

So, working on this Mooney is like working on a, say a BMW or a Volvo. Nothing is easy anymore. Thanks for sharing this with us.

My Highlander cowling comes off or on in five minutes or less.

I have found that the fuel tanks are hard to work on, specially leaking tanks.

My solution on that middle tube is -- don't take it off from that end until you drop the bottom cowling, and put it back before you put it back on.

I’m a pilot/mechanic. Never owned or worked on a Mooney. I was considering buying one. Not so sure now. Over an hour to remove the cowls. Persistent fuel leaks. I took a look at one last weekend and moving parts in the landing gear actually hitting each other while it’s sitting on the ground. I’m pretty sure it’s not supposed to work like that. Looks like poor rigging and/or worn out parts. Other mechanics warn me to be ready to spend $20,000 on landing gear on almost any Mooney I look at. It’s cool and fast. I really like it but I’d have to get some more hands on work to decide. Comments and opinions would be welcome.

Trav, have you done or know of anyone that has made a video of where to grease/lub a Mooney and what greases go where? Could I DM you? Would you do a video? I have a 65 M20C and the IPC doesn't show much, not does the service manual.

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When you were undoing the landing light it looked like a hole in the tube you had to move away. Is that a problem? Love your channel too and hope to own a Mooney M20C of my own someday!

Every airplane has its quirks to learn. People who perpetuate the maintenance myth just don’t have the experience.

Where does the other end of the alternate air SCAT hose attach ? the one on my 64 m20c has not been attached since I have owned it. Keep up the good content

Where does that lower cowl secondary air scat tube go? I believe that is used for the passive bost used in a later model (you have the cowl mod and it is compatible w/both). Mine didn’t go anywhere and is not found in the parts or service manual. [1962 M20C]