Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #51120
From: Mike Wills <rv-4mike@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: fuel filters
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 19:54:58 -0700
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Tracy,
 
A little more detail on symptoms that led you to change filters please? Was this for the 20B?
 
Although I'm not convinced that it was necessary, for lack of a better answer I replaced my filters after my fuel starvation episode a while back. I still have no smoking gun that I can point to as the cause of this isolated incident. Keep waiting for the sudden unexplainable re-occurrence. Hope when/if it happens I'm near something landable.
 
Mike Wills

Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 9:58 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: fuel filters

"Big fuel filters are essential, especially for those with composite tanks."

I second that.  Just had to change out my nice looking Jegs Billet aluminum filter (with a tiny screen disk filter inside) for Peterson 600 series fuel filter.   This is the filter between tank and fuel pump, not the high pressure one after the pumps.

Tracy

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:34 PM, John Slade <jslade@canardaviation.com> wrote:
For what it's worth, I've seen the symptoms of a partially blocked filter and restricted fuel flow while airborne....The mixture creeps toward lean, the EGT creeps up, fuel pressure is erratic and moving lower . Tweak the mixture knob toward rich and everything is fine for 10 mins, then the cycle begins again. Big fuel filters are essential, especially for those with composite tanks.
Regards,
John


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