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Put the new alternator on my 172 or sent the old one out for rebuild, and now I'm second guessing the whole thing
Had a charging issue on a 1978 Cessna 172 last month and the owner gave me the call on whether to drop in a new alternator or send the original out for overhaul. I went with the rebuild at a shop in Tulsa since it saved him about $400, but the turnaround took 12 days and the plane sat there the whole time. Now I'm wondering if I should've just eaten the cost difference and gotten it flying sooner. Any of you run into this with owners who care more about downtime than the invoice?
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piper_thompson3113d ago
Check if that shop in Tulsa can turnaround an exchange unit first, some of them keep spares on the shelf for exactly this reason. Saving $400 means nothing if the owner misses two weeks of flying weather in the fall.
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