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I knew that... just couldn't remember (duh!), I think "my cup runneth over"
with TLA's (three letter acronyms)
Thanks for the reminder
-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Bob White
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 20:40
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: WTF? Just when I think everything is going
perfect...
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:24:54 -0700
"Jeff Luckey" <JLuckey@pacbell.net> wrote:
> CAS? = Crank Angle Sensor
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> From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
> Behalf Of David Leonard
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 18:19
> To: Rotary motors in aircraft
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: WTF? Just when I think everything is going
> perfect...
>
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> Yup, spins with no sign of firing at all! It only spins easily by hand
when
> the plugs are out.. otherwise it is a one-compression-at-a-time kind of
> exercise. Compression is normal.. I am well familiar with its feel.
>
> I am currently leaning toward a intermittent condition with my CAS wiring
or
> the bad gas/flooding issue. At least it has made me think harder about my
> CAS as a single point failure and review the wiring.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions.
>
> Dave Leonard
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> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Charlie England
<ceengland@bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
>
> David Leonard wrote:
>
> Yesterday I went flying and tested out my new smoke system... everything
was
> perfect... somke is fun. Today I head out to go formation flying..
> nothing changed from my flight yesterday except for adding fuel. But it
> won't start... I verify that I have fuel pressure, fuel flow, injector
> function (in test mode), I have spark (in test mode). Maybe it is
> flooded... I change the plugs, re-verify spark in cranking mode (to
> eliminate issues with CAS), re-drain the fuel, verify compression,
re-verify
> fuel pressure and flow and injector funcion... but still it just turns
over
> without starting... Sigh
>
> Anyone one know of a new component necessary other than fuel, spark, and
> compression?
>
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