Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #38440
From: Walter Atkinson <walter@advancedpilot.com>
Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Hot Starts
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:59:58 -0500
To: <lml>
In TCM engines, the cause of the hot start problem is the heat-soaked engine driven fuel pump.  Get it cooled off (by running the boost pump in ICO for at least 60 seconds) and you no longer have a hot start.  It's a normal cold start.  In Lycomings this does not work.  You're on your own!

Walter


On Nov 13, 2006, at 11:38 PM, Bob Barker wrote:

Have you tried changing nothing?
 
Of course you pulled the mixture to idle cutoff to shut down. That needs to be released from the cutoff position. If my refueling is done in 20 minutes or less on a 70 degree  or warmer day I just push in the red knob and turn the key. No prime. My theory is it was running fine when I shut down and nothing has changed much so leave it alone. Works fine for me.
 
Outside those parameters I may prime for cold conditions or run boost pump to clear vapor lock for hot.
 
Bob Barker


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