Happy  Thanksgiving, hope you all had a great day!  Spent the morning pulling turkey for migrant workers in Indiantown. Quiet lunch with wife and afternoon in the hangar.  Ran yesterday a short time and oil pressure is too high (93 psi @2000rpm). Shut down when the EM2 (plug 3 came out because I had not put the screws in) went blank. Plumbed the 0-400 psi steam gage to oil pressure by the filter and started this afternoon with wife on the fire bottle. The steam gage was reading in the high 80’s and the engine continued to run rough when all of a sudden it got very smooth. About this time the wife was making some motion I could not interpret so shut down. A cleco had escaped from the firewall where I needed to be reminded to plug with a rivet. Did not want to run any more until I talked with Tracy or Bruce. Spoke with the “fast man” after dinner and he gave me an idea to mount the steam gage up by where the original oil filter had been removed and it would make certain that there is not a restriction in the cooler or filter. He does not think the engine will be damaged by further running plus he thinks there was a plug not firing until the engine started warming up and now it should be ok.

Slowly it is starting to come together after some seemingly painful starts. Can’t believe Bill Eslick had less teething problems than most Lycomings. I guess if you do it right it works with the first start :>). By the way Bill I dropped by Indiantown airport on the way back this morning and ran into an old neighbor of yours, Dave Moore. He said to say hello.

Bernie ,  N19VX