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Spring may be coming to Northern Michigan, it was
48 degrees today, so I pulled the 13B Tailwind out in the sun and let it warm up
some. I finally got the engine to run, I thought I had it running well
last fall, but it would only run with the cold start switch on and when I moved
the program switch from 0, the engine quit, so must start over with the
programming.
I started it up with the Weber 48 and it ran
fine and I had a chance to find the oil leak, only took about a minute of
running. I'm using the Mazda rotor oilers and one of the lines had a 3/4"
split in it right above the valve. Is Mazdatrix the place that has the SS
lines to replace the nylon lines. At first it looked like the leak was
between the windage/motormount plate and the block, as there were 3 cap screws
loose in that corner, so I removed them, drilled for safety wire and
reinstalled. The engine had 10.3 hours on it today.
JohnD
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