Joe,
What kind of carb are you running? Paul just changed his and is
building a new intake system.
> Guys,
> It was finally a calm clear evening so I went for a ride before 3
> or 4 more days of rain. The temp. was about 80 on the ground. I was going
> around the pattern once before departing for a pleasure ride. I had all
> my lights on and called my pattern legs. As I was on short finial the guy
> that had been sitting, holding short called departure and entered the
> runway. I hit the throttle and moved right and keyed the mike and just
> said "OK, I guess I'll go around." he said something and stopped but I
> couldn't understand him. By then I was back to 700 above and at the
> departure end and I told him that I was clear and to go ahead. He
> departed and I continued around for a decent landing. After that I flew
> to home and buzzed the house and did a half hour flight around the area
> and checked my indicated airspeed at 2800 and full throttle 79 deg. OAT.
> I have the spinner back on and the speed is back up to 165 indicated but
> the gps was showing a little more in every direction. I headed back and
> did another landing. I still had time so I headed around the pattern one
> more time. Everything was Zen and I pulled back for a flare and the prop
> stopped with no warning of any kind. A quick look ahead told me I didn't
> need the engine at that point so I just coasted to the exit. I couldn't
> get it restarted. My guess is that the temps under the cowl combined with
> it just idling for a couple minutes and the slow airspeed got the carb to
> hot or vapor lock
> Any way I ended up pushing the plane close to a half mile back to the
> hanger. It really surprised me because all temps ( head, exhaust, oil )
> were normal. When I got it back to the hanger I saw a puddle of oil on
> the nose wheel fairing. This ticked me off too because I thought I had
> all the oil problems behind me. So I took the cowl top off and there
> wasn't a sign of oil leak any where, Soo I pulled the bottom half off and
> found that there was a puddle of fuel in the bottom of the cowl and it
> was just mixed with some oil film from the bottom of the cowl. I figure
> that I may have flooded it trying to restart a hot engine. I ran the
> battery down and will recharge it in the morning. I'll let you guys know
> how it turns out.
> It was 50 min. of fun up to then anyway.
> Joe Horton, Coopersburg, Pa.
> joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com
>
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