Return-Path: Received: from imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.72] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.5) with ESMTP id 546172 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:43:02 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.152.59.72; envelope-from=ceengland@bellsouth.net Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([209.215.60.50]) by imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.11 201-253-122-130-111-20040605) with ESMTP id <20041126024230.HFNX2421.imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.net@[127.0.0.1]> for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:42:30 -0500 Message-ID: <41A69815.4040202@bellsouth.net> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:42:29 -0600 From: Charlie England User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Bernie run update References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable jbker@juno.com wrote: >Happy Thanksgiving, hope you all had a great day! Spent the morning pu= lling 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 beca= use 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 o= n the fire bottle. The steam gage was reading in the high 80=92s and the = engine continued to run rough when all of a sudden it got very smooth. Ab= out this time the wife was making some motion I could not interpret so sh= ut down. A cleco had escaped from the firewall where I needed to be remin= ded to plug with a rivet. Did not want to run any more until I talked wit= h Tracy or Bruce. Spoke with the =93fast man=94 after dinner and he gave = me an idea to mount the steam gage up by where the original oil filter ha= d 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 engi= ne started warming up and now it should be ok. > >Slowly it is starting to come together after some seemingly painful star= ts. Can=92t believe Bill Eslick had less teething problems than most Lyco= mings. I guess if you do it right it works with the first start :>). By t= he 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 > Congrats on the progress; I'm getting more & more confident that it will = be plug-n-play by the time I start. Charlie