BOB RUNGE'S COWL LATCH SOLUTION...
Swifter Bob Runge wrote the following on the Yahoo Globe Temco Swift Club site...

"Been reading about the stock cowl latches coming loose in the Internet News letter etc. and thought I'd share the setup N80528 has on the latches. My stock cowl latches have small holes drilled in the handles. Then when closed, the latch handles bump into small studs that also have holes in them. These studs are mounted at the very end of the latch handles detented travel. Then, through the holes is put a cowl safety pin (Aircraft Spruce new catalog page 98 item #AN 416-1 or -2. The pin latches just below the through hole side of the stud, therefore not allowing any upward travel. It's clean, neat and easy to deal with going in and out of the engine compartment."

Bob Runge
ejectr@javanet.com