Fixit
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Location: UK
My Posts This: Topic Forum | At last its flying again
I managed a couple of flights tonight and the Mod 1 pinion and main gear certainly did the trick but the flying was then cut short after two flights when the bloody carb started to run dry again, I’ve had this problem with this new engine before and I fit a heat shield between the carb and the insulator block, that seemed to work for a short time but its doing the same thing again now and after checking the filter and finding it clean plus no leeks around the gaskets I’ve pulled it off and changed it tonight. One more problem was a dry bearing squeaking so I just need to pinpoint the one that’s making the noise and change it.( all new )
I did manage to clock the head speed and that was 1830 and that’s with the new ratio of 5.75, that would put the RPM at 10,523 and I'm thinking that might be a little low and probably more suited to a 26 but the engine sounded happy enough so we will see how it goes.
All in all even with the set backs tonight I'm very pleased with it now, at last
I only like to fly gassed up |
that won’t have helped I guess
