Some of you know that I took my KR2 out of service over 18 months ago, to put fuel in the wings and install the Corvair. The fuel in the wings was finished several months ago, but I could not get the installation of the Corvair finished in time for this year's Gathering. I have been having trouble getting the engine to start now that the installation is done, and it has nothing to do with the engine, but, it has everything to do with the idiot who was doing the installation, me.
Both Matt Elder and Mark Langford spent a lot of their time trying to solve the mystery and earlier this week, I got an email from WW offering to come up and help me find the problem. However, today, I must have gotten some divine intervention. I could not stop the thought in my head that I should check the polarity on the coils, even though I knew which side was which. I installed the coils between the shelves, that made it so you could not see the marking on the coil, but I knew which side was + and which was -, but I just had to check even though I tried all known methods of distraction to keep from going through the required contortions to loosen the bolts to remove them. So upon discovery that the idiot had struck again, I re-oriented the coils so I can see the markings and made my own markings on the coils and the shelf under which they are installed. I re-connected everything and it fired off on the first blade. It continues to run great as long as I hold in the primer button, but won't run on the carb. Sending the carb back to Ellison on Monday, overnight, to see what dumb thing I inadvertently did to it. I spent about 30 minutes on the phone with Ben Ellison today and he is just as stumped as me. This is not a show stopper and I still plan to be at Corvair college in November. See N64KR at <http://krbuilder.org/> http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics See you at the 2011 - KR Gathering in Mt. Vernon, Il - MVN There is a time for building and it never seems to end. Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC
