>I have spoken with Danny Adams of the Aviat factory and he checked out my
>S-2A; I just bought it a month or so ago and I am not that familiar with the
>airplane.
>One of the suggestions he made was to route the manifold pressure hose
>upward from the cylinder (mine goes over the firewall oil reservoir and them
>toward the instrument panel. Danny said that this keep junk out of the gage
>and will keep me from having to rebuild it. If you think about it, when the
>airplane is on the ground, it is down hill from the engine to the instrument
>panel, so any accumulated junk will flow down the hose into the gage.

That's a good point, ofcourse when the plane is climbing etc. you are
still going to get some junk flowing back. I believe my cable is already
routed up the back of the firewall, then over the tank and down to the
guage but I'll check it this weekend.

Cheers,

Peter
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