John Secord

Excellent!! Very glad to hear. I am dealing with a gear door issue that hopefully is resolved tomorrow. 73’F in NC today. A big fake…

Excellent!! Very glad to hear. I am dealing with a gear door issue that hopefully is resolved tomorrow. 73’F in NC today. A big fake…

Update: some tweaking of the idle mixture and the engine runs fine. Take off fuel flow ist 28,3 gal/h resulting in good temperatures and performance „as expected“ by us. Annual done and the weather is also improving.

Keep on flying them birds!

Thomas

Thomas-My understanding is the fuel flow set-up is not overly complex for the person who understands it and has done it. Who in Germany have you used in the past? Wonder if you might find a YouTube that might show it?

One thing to make sure is that you adjust your fuel flow at wide open throttle at sea level to be 10% of your rated HP. So on…[Read more]

Update: had another cylinder overhauled and all rotocaps replaced. On Runup the fuelflow was well below spec. Had the fuel control unit overhauled here in Germany. Came back with factory settings. On run-up engine stalls below 1500 rpm. Need to setup the FCU according to SB. Did anybody venture this way before and has some knowledge to share?
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That is great news Rocky. And pics of the E to share? Does it include the turbo prop engine or are you going to have to source it?

Hello Thomas,

Jamon Pruitt just had his overhauled and might be a good resource for how that went.

Jamon Pruitt – jamonpruitt@gmail.com

Rocky! Hello sir. Karen and I thought that it was great getting to know you at the fly in. Looking forward to many fly outs from the fly ins with yo in the future.

For your assembly, please email Mr. Dave Smith. davesf17@yahoo.com

Some thoughts given the age of the engine and my experience:

My C model had a 72 Factory reman IO-520. It crapped the bed 6 years ago with a lite case and non-VAR crankshaft-the most logical solution was a factory reman. Not sure what the 73 looks like but a R&R with a factory reman is probably $55-60K if not higher if you do a prop IRAN,…[Read more]

Are you not bringing back the South Africa bird Rocky?

Rocky,

The guy in Auburn is Joseph McDonald. I don’t have a number for him, but we chat via Facebook.

Andy

Looks like a good bird. If you guys pass let me know. I think your pricing logic makes sense.

Best-

Thanks Rocky. I hope it goes to someone who intends to get her flying again. They are too nice, and too rare, to be rotting away.

Best-

Ed