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1. 07:56 AM - Re: Glasair-List Digest: 0 Msgs - 06/06/06 (Craymondw@aol.com)
2. 08:57 AM - Re: Re: Glasair-List Digest: 0 Msgs - 06/06/06 (Bruce Gray)
3. 11:36 AM - 12 V Electric Trim Kit for Glasair $450 (John Burnaby)
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| Subject: | Re: Glasair-List Digest: 0 Msgs - 06/06/06 |
I built a Glaisair2S Ft with an IO360 200hp engine. The engine has 960 hours
on it. As I was making my take off roll at my local home town airport, I
noticed the engine appeared to be running a little rough. About 100 feet in the
air, the engine appeared to be developing only 70% of its power. The engine
wasn't back firing. I leveled out at 200 feet and noticed my airspeed had fallen
to
85 mph and put the nose down to gain airspeed. After turning left towards a
cotton field, I could see that I could keep some altitude by keeping the nose
down to maintain airspeed and decided to make a right down wind. I had the
option of the down wind and the cotton field. By the time I approached a left base
my altitude was only 100 feet. I didn't think I had enough airspeed or
altitude to turn to final and decided that I would land on the grass on a diagonal
to the runway. About 500 feet from where I planned on touching down and about
fifty feet in the air, the engine suddenly developed full power. I circled the
airport and climbed up to 4,000 feet. Everything seemed fine and I flew twenty
miles for fuel. The engine ran smooth on the take off from that airport and
ran smooth to my destination and back to home base. Before this problem I
changed the fuel filter, air filter, oil (added AVBLEND), and cleaned my plugs
and
the injector screen. Fram no longer makes my fuel filter and I have been
using a NAPA NASCAR filter for the past two filter changes. I did notice that my
fuel flow on the departures had dropped from my usual 18 gallons per hour to
just above 14 gallons per hour. I removed the injectors, cleaned them and
reinstalled them. The fuel flow has returned to the 18 gallons per hour. Anybody
have any ideas what may have happened?
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| Subject: | Re: Glasair-List Digest: 0 Msgs - 06/06/06 |
I would remove the Fram filter and replace it with an Andair gascolator.
http://www.andair.co.uk/system/index.html
Bruce
www.glasair.org
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Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:56 AM
Subject: Glasair-List: Re: Glasair-List Digest: 0 Msgs - 06/06/06
I built a Glaisair2S Ft with an IO360 200hp engine. The engine has 960
hours
on it. As I was making my take off roll at my local home town airport, I
noticed the engine appeared to be running a little rough. About 100 feet
in
the air, the engine appeared to be developing only 70% of its power. The
engine wasn't back firing. I leveled out at 200 feet and noticed my
airspeed
had fallen to 85 mph and put the nose down to gain airspeed. After
turning
left towards a cotton field, I could see that I could keep some altitude
by
keeping the nose down to maintain airspeed and decided to make a right
down
wind. I had the option of the down wind and the cotton field. By the
time I
approached a left base my altitude was only 100 feet. I didn't think I
had
enough airspeed or altitude to turn to final and decided that I would
land
on the grass on a diagonal to the runway. About 500 feet from where I
planned on touching down and about fifty feet in the air, the engine
suddenly developed full power. I circled the airport and climbed up to
4,000
feet. Everything seemed fine and I flew twenty miles for fuel. The
engine
ran smooth on the take off from that airport and ran smooth to my
destination and back to home base. Before this problem I changed the
fuel
filter, air filter, oil (added AVBLEND), and cleaned my plugs and the
injector screen. Fram no longer makes my fuel filter and I have been
using
a NAPA NASCAR filter for the past two filter changes. I did notice that
my
fuel flow on the departures had dropped from my usual 18 gallons per
hour
to just above 14 gallons per hour. I removed the injectors, cleaned them
and reinstalled them. The fuel flow has returned to the 18 gallons per
hour.
Anybody have any ideas what may have happened?
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| Subject: | 12 V Electric Trim Kit for Glasair $450 |
Brackets and control arm assembled but the trim kit was never installed.
Email me for photos.
Glasair gets $630 for it.
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