Return-Path: Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.202.64] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.5) with ESMTP id 539459 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:13:39 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=204.127.202.64; envelope-from=kenpowell@comcast.net Received: from 204.127.205.143 ([204.127.205.143]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <2004112002130901600kasioe>; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:13:09 +0000 Received: from [68.51.44.162] by 204.127.205.143; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:13:09 +0000 From: kenpowell@comcast.net To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Bernie Kerr had fire in the hole! Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:13:09 +0000 Message-Id: <112020040213.1271.419EA834000CDC7E000004F7220076370404040A99019F020A05@comcast.net> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Nov 11 2004) X-Authenticated-Sender: a2VucG93ZWxsQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_1271_1100916789_0" --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_1271_1100916789_0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Congrads Bernie!!! I can't wait to see and hear the new RV-9a. Also, a 'plugs cleaner' is a neccessary accessory for 2-stroke guys and apparently rotary guys as well. You will save a bundle on plugs if you beadblast them lightly (you can do this 2 - 5 times with no apparrent lose of performance) rather than replacing them everytime you wet foul them. Ken Powell -------------- Original message -------------- > > 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! > > >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > >> Archive: http://lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/List.html --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_1271_1100916789_0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Congrads Bernie!!! I can't wait to see and hear the new RV-9a.

Also, a 'plugs cleaner' is a neccessary accessory for 2-stroke guys and apparently rotary guys as well. You will save a bundle on plugs if you beadblast them lightly (you can do this 2 - 5 times with no apparrent lose of performance) rather than replacing them everytime you wet foul them.

Ken Powell

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>
> 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!
>
> >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/
> >> Archive: http://lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/List.html

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