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Re: Europa-List: Re: Occasional engine anomally 912S - water?

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Re: Occasional engine anomally 912S - water?
From: Alan Burrill <alanb@dpy01.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:59:36

Probable not related to change in fuel.

Hows the fuel pressure and how old is the Fuel Pump. State of the fuel carb 
bowls
and general health of the fuel system including the carbs?

Alan

Sent from my iPad

> On 10 Oct 2018, at 10:41, graeme bird <graeme@gdbmk.co.uk> wrote:
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> Interesting that a bit of ethanol could gobble up the water; I rarely fill up
after flying; so I could do that while cold nights persist. I doubt the jet 
block
debris thing as it would be much more pervasive and random; though I did
change all the pipes (didn't really twig it would need such a shakedown again).

> Never thought of tilting the plan to get more fuel/less air; good tip.
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> I couldn't say that it only happens once per flight I think it might have been
more on an occasion. 
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> I always test the fuel for using the water tube thing but have never seen 
> anything
and also never had an issue with ordinary unleaded shell for 5 years.
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> Graeme Bird
> G-UMPY -  Mono Classic/XS FFW 912S, Woodcomp SR3000/3W CS, trutrak Gemini 2 
> axis
AP, PAW, PFLARM core, ads-b out, 8.33khz, mode S, FP-5, Aera500, SD on Nexus,
Smart A3
> 350 hours &amp; 6 years on the Mono, 930 total
> g@gdbmk.co.uk
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> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=483752#483752
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