Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 13:22:59 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-m23.mx.aol.com ([64.12.137.4] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 3070434 for lml@lancaironline.net; Tue, 09 Mar 2004 08:47:01 -0500 Received: from Sky2high@aol.com by imo-m23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37.4.) id q.65.23dad16a (3964) for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:46:58 -0500 (EST) From: Sky2high@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <65.23dad16a.2d7f24d1@aol.com> X-Original-Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:46:57 EST Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Hot Start Technique X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1078840017" X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 720 -------------------------------1078840017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/9/2004 6:49:38 AM Central Standard Time, marv@lancaironline.net writes: Now, I find less fuel works better and use a flooded start procedure first. Turn the boost pump on but keep the mixture at cut off, throttle wide open. It's easier to add fuel later if it won't fire up. Mark, That's the way I do it too. The engine driven fuel pump is quite hot and will cavitate as fresh (but engine compartment warmed) fuel is first fed to it - vaporizing from the heat. The boost pump (firewall or cockpit mounted) will actually pump fuel and, more importantly, provide enough pressure to minimize vaporization from heat soaked parts. Scott Krueger AKA Grayhawk Sky2high@aol.com II-P N92EX IO320 Aurora, IL (KARR) "...as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know." D. Rumsfeld -------------------------------1078840017 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
In a message dated 3/9/2004 6:49:38 AM Central Standard Time,=20 marv@lancaironline.net writes:
<= FONT=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size= =3D2>Now, I=20 find less fuel works better and use a flooded start procedure first.=20
  Turn the boost pump on but keep the mixture at cut off, throttl= e=20 wide open.

It's easier to add fuel later if it won't fire=20 up.
Mark,
 
That's the way I do it too.
 
The engine driven fuel pump is quite hot and will cavitate as fresh (bu= t=20 engine compartment warmed) fuel is first fed to it - vaporizing from the=20 heat.  The boost pump (firewall or cockpit mounted) will actually pump=20= fuel=20 and, more importantly, provide enough pressure to minimize vaporization from= =20 heat soaked parts.=20
 
Scott Krueger=20 AKA Grayhawk
Sky2high@aol.com
II-P N92EX IO320 Aurora, IL=20 (KARR)

"...as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we kn= ow=20 we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there= are=20 some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones w= e=20 don't know we don't know." D. Rumsfeld
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