Darren wrote- >I fogged my engine before I put it to bed last winter. Life did not >allow any progress thru until recently. Now I'm looking at starting my >Cont-65 back up. What should I do before sparking it up?
I hope Jeff Scott chimes in here since he's an A&P and knows small Continentals inside and out (literally), but the one thing I've learned from the A-65 on my Pietenpol is that on most of them, the oil pump will lose prime if the engine sits for anything more than about a week, and it's tricky to get it going again if it has any amount of wear (and most of them do). You obviously don't want to run your engine without oil pressure! Plenty of small Continental tips and tricks at the Sacramento Sky Ranch website (for example, item no. 20 at http://www.sacskyranch.com/eng26.htm ), but also some very good ones from Harry Fenton on the FlyBaby site, at http://www.bowersflybaby.com/tech/fenton.htm#a65_oil_prime . A wealth of information on small Continentals on that site! Oscar Zuniga San Antonio, TX mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
