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Best shown via the photo. I suppose we could fabricate one but it seems a lot of work. [Linked Image]

Referred to as "bracket assembly - cowl snubber" with the assorted baffles.

Ideas welcomed.

Cessna sells that part, as I've replaced mine in the past. The new ones are plastic (and they will crack again) with the 4 baffle seals installed. Last I checked around 5 years ago, they were in the $130 range. I'll dig around for a part number...

Yowza!!!! Looks like they went up a wee bit:

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$521.55

Rethinking here, I wonder if it would be possible/feasible to disassemble it, press it out, straight/flat, scribe another replacement onto a piece of flat aluminum, form it up in a metal brake, reattach new baffle seals and make it an "owner produced part?" Seems it's got to be cheaper than $500+dollars for the OEM replacement?$?$?$

Then again, most '71-'77 models I've looked at seem to be missing that piece.

Glen, this happened to me this past annual, though yours seems a bit worse.

We did a sheet metal repair with the original part.

Check some scrap yards perhaps?

My A&P/IA is considering fabricating it himself but I wanted to check with everyone else before we,started reinventing the wheel so to speak.

My A&P is generally hesitant to fabricate some things because his time becomes as much as just buying the part outright, depending.

I agree. Sometimes it is just more cost effective to buy it from Cessna. I did this for the very aft tail cone sheet metal on my plane. Yes, I could have made one. But by the time I bought the correct sheet of aluminum, then having to experiment on at least 2 or more test pieces to get the correct compound curve. I decided just to give Cessna the $250.00 for the factory CORRECT part.

Mine has been missing since i bought it(8 years ago). At least 60% of the 150's I look at dont have one. I doubt it makes a hill of beans difference to the airflow underneath the engine. My I/A is ok without it being there.

Jim, I kinda like your line of thinking on this.

What my old one looks like, made of some sort of formed plastic, metal baffles, staples and thin, black seals. Made for '71-'77 L-M models ONLY.

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It sure would be nice to preserve it, remove the baffle seals and re-engineer it out of fiberglass.

Glen, I'll mail it your way if you need an original to go from while making a new one. It's be fairly easy to scribe one onto a piece of flat aluminum, cut it out, drill it and apply the appropriate brakes.

I'd just ask that the integrity of the original remain intact for future use. PM me your address if you decide to go this route.