| Hi dave Excellent to see that she's back and flying, I still have an oil leak as well, still leaks less than a lycoming so I just get used to it, also small water loss from time to time via a new seal !,,,, All in all wouldn't go back to a lycoming these engines are so forgiving, found out the other day that one rotor was running on 1 trailing plug as leading was grounded and still ran well just down slightly on power, Go the rotary
Cheers Christian On Friday, 27 May 2016, David Leonard < flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote: Hi Niel. Seems that most of the problem was that the seals simple were not sealing very well. After a couple of flights things seemed to improve and I stopped getting significant amounts of combustion gasses into the coolant. Though me thinks it is time to re-work my cooing system a little so that accumulated gasses end up in the catch can and get blown off first... should be an easy modification.
I still have a brisk oil drip from somewhere probably several spots... still trying to identify and fix..
But I'm back in the air and stopped my search for a lyc.... ;-)
Dave Leonard Turbo Rotary RV-6
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