BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Oct 2025, 20:26

Username Protected wrote:

I would get the annual signed off with a discrepancy list and take it to someone who will put new lifters in it.

This!

Robert T

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Oct 2025, 20:38

Username Protected wrote:

I would get the annual signed off with a discrepancy list and take it to someone who will put new lifters in it.

Yea, I second this approach. You need another opinion.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Oct 2025, 20:56

Lifters can be replaced, there's a case for repair as the others above have said.

Any borescope pics of the lifters/cam, or photos of the airplane overall?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Oct 2025, 21:17

If it matters, I also would get it out of that shop and get the lifters replaced.

I have heard Mike Bush talk many times about a whole lot of lifters that were made poorly. I don't think you will even have to take the cylinders off to change the lifters and inspect the cam. Not an issue.

--paul

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Oct 2025, 21:28

You might reference and apply the engine manufacturer's Service Information Directive "SID 05-1". It contains good pictures of what is, and is not, acceptable. It was issued 20 years ago.

A convenient source of SID 05-1: https://www.lancair.net/archives/SID05-1.pdf

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Oct 2025, 23:23

Interested in the Baron. Do you have any pictures? What airport is it at? Thank you! Brent

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Oct 2025, 00:56

I’ve instructed the shop to prepare a ferry permit and am focused on getting it home right now. Paradoxically, this shop is a Savvy shop.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Oct 2025, 00:57

Username Protected wrote:

Interested in the Baron. Do you have any pictures? What airport is it at? Thank you! Brent

Everything is available at the Google Drive link in the first post.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Oct 2025, 07:36

Hope you save your bird.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Oct 2025, 07:50

Username Protected wrote:

I’ve instructed the shop to prepare a ferry permit and am focused on getting it home right now. Paradoxically, this shop is a Savvy shop.

Good path to take! I hope it works out for you.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Oct 2025, 08:51

I hope that you are able to keep your plane, however if you still are planning on selling it, please let me know.

Mike

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Oct 2025, 08:55

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Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Oct 2025, 09:34

It’s still a for sale thread

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Oct 2025, 10:41

I’m interested in your plane. Please call me.five four zero three three five eight nine four three thanks

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Oct 2025, 21:38

I had a similar experience, some pitting on the lifters but the cam looked good, so we swapped out all the lifters. A year and a half (and 180 hours later) the engine was making metal and the lifters and cam both looked like crap, so out came the engine.

That being said, if I had to do it all over again, I’d have still swapped the lifters and kept on flying. I figure if I had overhauled the motor 18 mo the ago just cause of the lifters I wouldn’t be in any different situation than I am today, but I would have foregone the chance that the new lifters might have lived happily ever after.

Would recommend keeping a close eye on the oil filters, not just the oil analysis. Hope you’re able to continue enjoying the airplane, and if not, hope someone else is.

Ken

SOLD: 1964 Baron 55B $39,000