Recent content by RevB

Is the oil level above the valve stems when not operating? 🤔 ⛔

Another session of " Let's all give advice to someone who is marginally capable of understanding mechanical things." I swear, all of you must do this for fun.

Ah ha....missed it....👍

Now where did the "popping" come from? Wasn't ever mentioned until now. I'm right over by the airport. Just sayin'.

That load compensation only occurs because the governor opens the throttle plate increasing intake airflow which lowers the intake pressure and the atmosphere pushes more fuel thru the orifice.

Who calibrated your digital unit? 🤔

Chinese castings.....

Image 6678 says Nope. The only way to save that would be clean it up, oxy/acetylene metal spray process to build it up and turn it in a lathe back to specified diameter. Not cheap.

Is that your "problem" ? It's not a problem.

Champion plugs are the standard answer when they have no clue. 🤔

Bullshit.

I was of the same mind set. My last aircraft was a Bellanca Super Viking, 4 tanks, two on either side. I'd never let anyone fuel it because the inside tanks would fill really slowly so I'd have to do the left then the right, come back to the left and then back to the right. The out board tanks...

Up in PA several years ago a neighbor had a JD that would just die. Did all the normal investigations and determined it was a fuel issue. Looked into the tank and was amazed. Quite a bit of organic debris floating about including little leaf chunks. The amazing part there was no filter at the...

Well..."water". Let's look for root cause. 1. Mower stored indoors? 2. Fuel cans stored indoors? 3. Same Fuel cans? 4. Fuel obtained from same, well used gas station? I don't recall having any flooding lately. Nor has it been excessively humid. As for putting gas in a mason jar....unless you...

And just as a historical note....when Wernher Von Braun moved to Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville there was a conspiracy to welcome him...whenever he said "Huntsville" all the engineers would correct him with "Huntspatch" in a faux German accent. After a bit he started saying "Huntspatch".