John,
That's certainly good news.  An instrumentation issue is definitely easier
to repair than an engine problem.

I'm glad that things are going better.

I should have my new fuel pressure regulator today, and I'm planning to make
a trip to South Carolina tomorrow to replace the defective regulator,
re-tune the EC2, and do some flying.  Weather looks good for Thursday
through Saturday.

Steve Brooks


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From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]On
Behalf Of John Slade
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 8:19 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Another precautionary landing


By the way, I calibrated a mechanical gauge today, got 20PSI on cranking, so
I ran the engine. It went off the scale past 100 for the first few minutes,
then gradually came down to 85. I did dome runups and taxiing. By the time
the engine was really hot the (accurate) oil pressure was 65 at about 3000
rpm. I'm feeling a little better about this. Once I get accurate calibrated
water and oil temp readings (my EM2 died) I'll do some high speed taxi tests
to see if I can get the oil pressure and temps to misbehave. I'm beginning
to suspect that the low pressure and high temp readings were erroneous.
John


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