-------------- Original message from WALTER B KERR <jbker@juno.com>: --------------


> Yuk, I've said it before and am now living it: we can not support these
> engines with Tracy's EC2 and EM2 without Tracy and he should train
> someone else!
>
> Got my medical back yesterday and have had the A/C laid up for a week
> while waiting on it.
>
> Did some small jobs involving wiring and calibrating the EM2. Found out
> from Tracy if you wish to use the aux liquid temps, you must add 2 200ohm
> resistors in an circuit that I do not understand but got it cal'd to work
> and read near amb at the low end and 212 with boiling water. Added a VDO
> temp sensor to the tank header by the exit of the oil from the cooler so
> that could get the cool side temps of oil cooler. Drilled and tapped an
> 1/8 inch NPT hole and discovered turbulators. It could slide up and down
> in the cooling tube. Did I knock it loose while drilling, yuk. Jerry Hey
> came to the rescue and gave me Ed K's email address. Ed assured me that
> they all float in the tube, whew that made my day! Thanks Jerry. Moved
> the pressure sender for the oil P to a T off the PSRU supply source to
> get a more meaningful location of oil P.
>
> When I tried to start the engine late yesterday on a freshly charged
> battery, no fire in hole, tried starting fluid because engine has set for
> a week and had to do this at LAL after a week at SNF. Engine will go back
> to Bruce probably in July to fiqure out why there is only 75 psi cranking
> compression. While cranking, the rpm display on the EM2 was constantly
> flashing 0 and NOP! Anyone have a hint what that is trying to tell me??
>
> I'll bet a dollar to a hole in a doughnut that Tracy can give me several
> things to check regarding wiring and the engine would run but he is AWOL
> in Colo with "TED" and probably will not be able to reach him until
> Charlie's flyin. Kelly if he passes by your place on the way, ask him to
> bail me out with a phone call please.
>
> I've said before and am now afraid I'm experiencing it first hand. We
> need a "redundant Tracy to keep these things perking with his stuff, but
> I don't know how to clone one.
>
> Bernie, needing HELP if N19VX is going to make Lumberton
>
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