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For someone who hates fiberglass, it would appear
that you are doing a fine job, regardless.
Thanks. I believe I've said before,
that I appreciate what you can do with fiberglass, I just hate working with
it. I also have to admit that it gets easier to work with, the more I'm
forced to do it. Eventually, I can imagine learning enough tricks to make
it less painful, but I would never have the patience to work with it full
time.
I noticed that your
throttlebody appears to terminate at a slightly downward tilt, similar to
mine. Please keep me posted regarding your experiences with the fuel drip
that tends to come from the throttlebody right after engine shutdown. I now shut
my fuel pump off and let the engine die from fuel exhaustion, but I still get
the drips.
I'll keep you posted. So far, I've
only run it once, and shut it off with the EC-2 switch. That got me a
couple drips. I wondered if shutting off the fuel pump would work.
As the rail pressure drops, the engine quits because it can't get enough fuel to
run. However, you're still injecting fuel, albeit at a lower
pressure. I would have bet that killing the pump would decrease the drips,
but not stop them completely. The better option should be to disable
the injectors, so fuel flow it stopped cleanly. Even that may not work,
especially at idle, since the engine will stop so quickly that it won't
have a chance to vacuum out the intake. Come to think of it, the Lycoming
boys tend to run their engines up some prior to cutting the mixture,
so maybe that would help to clear out the pipes.
Also, thanks for the note about the TB
studs. My brief run was with the studs loose, so I guess I'm lucky
they didn't get free. I should have flanges bolted on
for the next run.
Cheers,
Rusty
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