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From: "Ed Anderson" <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Bernie Kerr had fire in the hole!
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:08:24 -0500
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Great to hear, Bernie!

Any running engine is a good engine {:>).   Yeah, 64 psi would be a tad
above the recommended pressure probably more of a problem at idle and low
rpms than elsewhere.

So hope to make it to the Jan RV gathering at Lakeland - not much further
down to see you.

Great going!

Best Regards

Ed

----- Original Message -----
From: <jbker@juno.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 7:48 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Bernie Kerr had fire in the hole!


>
> Finally had the 13B running with a lot of help from "THE" rotary guru
himself, Tracy Crook.  Tracy flew down yesterday in the Otter on his first
real cross country (1.5 hours). I still have some problems to sort out but
at least we had it running after a lot of diagnostic work and chasing
phantom problems. It was a very educational day for me, but am still a
neophyte at the rotary game.
>
> The engine was severely flooding itself and Tracy convinced me that once
the plugs are wet, you are only kidding yourself if you continue to crank
until you remove the plugs and clean them. I have been trying to crank with
some suspect plugs that I had thought were new. They came in the engine, but
Tracy said they have run before somewhere. We finally resolved that the two
things causing the extreme flooding were that the fuel pressure really was
what the EC2 monitor was reporting (64 psia) and that somehow when I checked
the impedance on my injectors that I thought they were the saturated type
and they are really the peak type that require the resistors. Tracy flew the
otter home this morning from TCAP and has some resistors coming priority
mail which I should get Monday. Bruce Turrentine suggest that I just buy a
new requlator from Advance/Discount auto. Will pick it up tomorrow.
>
> Even with these two problems, Tracy was able to get it running and had it
purring pretty good on the B controller by turning the mixture control full
lean and setting the internal trim full lean. When he flipped it to A
channel , the plugs fouled before he could get it leaned. We could not get a
restart because of the flooding.
>
> My wife commented on how much better the Otter sounds with the new gearbox
and engine. Hope she thinks ours sounds as good when it gets all sorted out
here.
>
> Should be cranking again on Monday pm. Stay tuned.
>
> Bernie Kerr, itching to get flying!
>
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