X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [64.129.170.194] (HELO VIRCOM1.fcdata.private) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.11) with ESMTP id 4665407 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:45:13 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.129.170.194; envelope-from=cbarber@texasattorney.net Received: from FCD-MAIL06.FCDATA.PRIVATE ([fe80::697f:d6aa:b87:78d8]) by FCD-MAIL05.FCDATA.PRIVATE ([fe80::809d:a06e:5913:452e%15]) with mapi id 14.01.0270.001; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 19:41:12 -0600 From: Chris Barber To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: hot hard start... Thread-Topic: hot hard start... Thread-Index: AcutQtCrMkww1UEFQJ6/+L844nxKGA== Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 01:44:26 +0000 Message-ID: <2D41F9BF3B5F9842B164AF93214F3D3034D98A7C@FCD-MAIL06.FCDATA.PRIVATE> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [99.98.105.202] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_2D41F9BF3B5F9842B164AF93214F3D3034D98A7CFCDMAIL06FCDATA_" MIME-Version: 1.0 --_000_2D41F9BF3B5F9842B164AF93214F3D3034D98A7CFCDMAIL06FCDATA_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Oh, and by the way, I had already checked so many things before I got to th= e point of pulling the plugs and checking the apex seals that my brain hurt= s. Things like clogged fuel filter, Map pressure hoses, connections on the= EC2, making sure to turn the pumps off at shut down, not flooding it hopef= ully, among others. It did seem to start better when mixture was pretty much full lean but too= k extremely long cranking....literally a minute or too or more. When it di= d start, it seemed to kind of creep up on actually running and not just fir= e up. It seem to be just on the edge of starting, but would not want to ac= tually start. I am surprised I did not burn out my starter completely. I = was developing power...up to about 6300 rpm with 3 lbs of boost, but today = when I ran it up I was only getting around 5000 rpm and it was running roug= h and I could not seem to get it to smooth out. Chris --_000_2D41F9BF3B5F9842B164AF93214F3D3034D98A7CFCDMAIL06FCDATA_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Oh, and by the way, I had already checked so many things before I got to= the point of pulling the plugs and checking the apex seals that my brain h= urts.  Things like clogged fuel filter, Map pressure hoses, conne= ctions on the EC2, making sure to turn the pumps off at shut down, not flooding it hopefully, among = others.

 

It did seem to start better when  mixture was pretty mu= ch full lean but took extremely long cranking....literally a minute or too or more.  When it did start, it seemed to kind of&n= bsp;creep up on actually running and not just fire up.  It seem to be just on the edge of starting, but would not want t= o actually start.  I am surprised I did not burn out my st= arter completely.  I was developing power...up to about 6300 rp= m with 3 lbs of boost, but today when I ran it up I was only getting around 5000 rpm and it was running rough and I could not = seem to get it to smooth out.

 

Chris

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