I suspect that the proper amount of oil will always result in oil
increasing in the pan. After all, in the car this oil is recycled out of the
pan.
Does anyone have any good data on how much oil the rotary “uses”
between oil changes? That would give some idea of how much it would take to
not have any oil get into the pan, but I doubt it is a good idea to have all
the oil burn or blow out. Lubrication is the goal.
I plan to use 3 oz per 4 gal. 1 ½ oz Marvel Mistery oil and 1 ½ oz 2
cycle oil.
And I plan to not forget to put it in each time! :>)
If I change oil every 50 hours, I will use around 2.5 gal of oil between
changes. Anybody have data that indicates I will have to drain oil between
changes? I assume that Marvel is as good for the crankcase as the 2 cycle is
bad for it??? My setup holds 8 quarts when full. I was thinking about running
it about a quart low on changes. “Input!, I need input!”
Bill B
I am looking forward to reading John’s writeup about his
incident. He always did such a good job describing what was going on with his
build, I was sorta sad when he finished. :>(
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday,
September 02, 2009 10:04 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re:
Help for John Slade
Just talked to John
again. Engine emergency caused by clogged fuel filters (John mentioned
debris caused by some fuel tank work of some sort?). Saw fuel pressure
fluctuations on EM2 and increased EGTs then rpm started falling. After
landing, John found the clogged filters & cleaned them out. That
procedure called for closing a shutoff valve from the tanks. After
cleaning the filters, he forgot to turn the shutoff valves back on, hence the
failure to start. He eventually noticed that fuel pressure was super low
and that eventually jogged the memory of the shutoff valves. After
opening them, the engine started immediately.
The RPM anomaly is still a mystery & I didn't think to ask him if that was
back to normal. I'm sure we will hear more later. I'm kind of
amazed that the engine still had good compression after 50 gallons of fuel with
no oil added was used.
Just random thoughts: I'm thinking I should cut back on the amount of
oil I add. I'm still accumulating 2 stroke in the crankcase when using
3/4 oz per gallon of gas. Think I'll go to 1/2 oz / gal. on
Renesis. Peripheral exhaust port 13Bs need more oil than Renesis but 1
oz/gal is probably overkill.
Tracy
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:46 PM, David Leonard <wdleonard@gmail.com> wrote:
So what caused the evergency landing?
Dave Leonard
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Tracy Crook <tracy@rotaryaviation.com>
wrote:
Called John to see if I could help. What a saga!
Lots of indications that it is clogged fuel system somewhere but also some
symptoms that occurred simultaneously that make no sense at all (like a double
rpm indication). John says compression is good/normal in spite of
two fuel stops with no oil added to gas (forgot). Engine was running
normal at shutdown after emergency landing but now won't start.
Unfortunately John has none of the EC2 upgrades including ignition &
injector diagnostics and has not tried checking for spark while cranking since
that is a 2 man job. I forgot to ask if he had tried the backup on
EC2 controller but I assume he did.
Tracy
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Bulent Aliev <bulent@enginegearonline.com>
wrote:
Guys, I just got a call
from John Slade. He had to do an emergency landing in Graystone 17FL (Ocala)
FL. His engine will not start again, and he needs someone with rotary
experience to talk to. His cel # is 860-271-3941. Please give him a call if you
can help in any way.
Buly
Bulent Aliev
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