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Re: Europa-List: 914 Stuck Wastegate

Subject: Re: Europa-List: 914 Stuck Wastegate
From: Garry <garrys@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:52:11

Gert,  I understand your cable issue but no, I had the shaft which operates 
the butterfly valve in the wastegate, stuck.

Garry


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gert Dalgaard" <lgds@post6.tele.dk>
Subject: Re: Europa-List: 914 Stuck Wastegate


>
> Hi Gerry
> I had the same problem at bout 300 hours and traced it back to the
> bowden-cable what had a very small heat-damage due to routing it to
> close to the exhaust pipe.....
> Changed the cable and everything worked out properly again.
> Regards Gert
> OY-GDS / Mono / 914
>
>
> Den 19/09/2005 kl. 0.42 skrev Garry:
>
>>
>> Yesterday I went out for my $100 hamburger flight.  At about 400 ft
>> after takeoff I scanned my gauges and found to my horror that my
>> manifold pressure was reading 52 inches!  My EGT was rapidly
>> climbing through 1650 degrees (F)
>
>
> 



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