Frans,
Great! Now lay in some aspirin to take care of the sore muscles in your face
from
the grin you are about to develop.
Wishing you light breezes and severe clear. Have a great first flight.
Bob Borger
On Monday, March 29, 2010, at 04:28PM, "Frans Veldman" <frans@privatepilots.nl>
wrote:
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>On 03/26/2010 05:51 PM, Bob Borger wrote:
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>> Off the top of my head, I'd guess a sticky float or restriction in the fuel
return line.
>
>It appeared to be a sticky float or valve. I took the carb out, cleaned
>it although I couldn't find anything serious that could have clogged the
>valve or float, just some residu left from evaporated fuel. Apparently
>that did it, no more fuel overflow, and the engine, after rebalancing
>the carbs, ran fine.
>
>My previous problem after a long pause, oil seeping into the turbo
>housing to be blown out at the first start, was this time almost non
>existent. Just a little bit of oil was collected in 4 months, far less
>than previous winter stop. I guess it was indeed a seal that needed to
>"settle".
>
>So, first flight can be performed any time now, as soon as weather and
>testpilots cooperate. ;-)
>
>Frans
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