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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!
>
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