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Subject: Europa-List: Mixture control
From: Remi Guerner <air.guerner@orange.fr>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:50:28
Terry,

I am coming back to this subject as I am doing some maintenance on the 
engine and had to remove the exhaust system. I took this opportunity to 
look at the coloration inside the exhaust elbows. Here is what I found:
Cyl 1: black
Cyl 4: white
Cyl 2 and 3: light brown

So cyl 4 is the leanest on my engine. Cyl 1 is the richest and the other 
2 are in between.  My engine has 350 hours and no adjustment of the carb 
needles were done since new. I could adjust the right carb needle to run 
leaner on Cyl 1 and 3, but the two front cylinders (1 and 2) would still 
run richer than the rear ones. This is different from what you 
experienced with your own engine. Mixture maldistribution is obvious 
here and does not seem to be repeatable on all engines of the type (912 
ULS).

Regards

Remi Guerner
F-PGKL


 >>>>>>>Testing has shown that the standard rotax carb settings are 
actually lean-of-peak at sea level on the front two cylinders <<<<<<<<
Terry Seaver 


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