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I have been tod that a .
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From: Todd Thelin
To: krnet
Sent: Wed, Mar 7, 2012 4:33 pm
Subject: Re: KR> Dirty Belly
have been tod that a large percentage of dirty belly problems are traced to
ver filli
I have been tod that a large percentage of dirty belly problems are traced to
over filling of the crankcase (on VW conversions anyway) often attributed to
the dipstick not calibrated correctly, which causes excess oil to be blown out
the vent tube, and that once the oil level is adjusted to the
A few years ago I was having problems with a dirty belly on my kr. I got an
old oil separator from a wet to dry vacuum pump conversion I did on another
aircraft. I installed the separator and ran the return line to the intake
box of the carb. The waste was recycled through the engine and voila - no
My KR suffered the 'dirty belly' problem for years: blowby oil collecting
exhaust soot. Bending the exhaust tips downward (four pipes) cured the soot
problem years ago. Finally last year I installed a modified blowby oil
seperator to capture the blowby oil.
Ground down the top of the seperato
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