Smooth Ride kit...

All of our piston engine aircraft are getting these "smooth ride kits," which basically is an STC for taking off the front single engine mounts and installing dual mounts on the front. It is supposed to keep the engine from drooping in the front and is supposed to help keep vibration to a minimum. Well, I've done 4 of these kits so far. The first plane in our fleet to get the kit was 5Y-CMA. I helped Jose Reyes install it in just the first 3 days I was working in the shop. Basically, I was just helping more than anything. Well, I did the next two on 7DG and 90U, our two project planes (the pictures below are 7DG, I did the installation about a month or so ago). I also put it on N756MS, one of the newer 206s to the fleet (6MS also has the "new" paint scheme, which 7DG and 90U will both get). We also put the kit on our Cessna 210, but that was primarily Brandon (short termer) and Chris Kibe (Kenyan mechanic), with some input and help from me. We have 1 or 2 more to do, and that will be our complete piston fleet with the smooth ride kit...


7DG's old single front engine mounts
















7DG's new dual front engine mounts.
(The pink stuff is structural adhesive... not my first choice of colors, but all we had. Oh, well.)