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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Bernie Kerr had fire in the hole!
From: Bulent Aliev <atlasyts@bellsouth.net>
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Congratulations Bernie. Hope I will do some noise soon?
Bulent

On 11/19/04 7:48 PM, "jbker@juno.com" <jbker@juno.com> wrote:

> 
> 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!