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Craymondw(at)aol.com
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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 6:56 am Post subject: Glasair-List Digest: 0 Msgs - 06/06/06

I built a Glaisair2S Ft with an IO360 200hp engine. The engine has 960 hours on it. As I was making my take off roll at my local home town airport, I noticed the engine appeared to be running a little rough. About 100 feet in the air, the engine appeared to be developing only 70% of its power. The engine wasn't back firing. I leveled out at 200 feet and noticed my airspeed had fallen to 85 mph and put the nose down to gain airspeed. After turning left towards a cotton field, I could see that I could keep some altitude by keeping the nose down to maintain airspeed and decided to make a right down wind. I had the option of the down wind and the cotton field. By the time I approached a left base my altitude was only 100 feet. I didn't think I had enough airspeed or altitude to turn to final and decided that I would land on the grass on a diagonal to the runway. About 500 feet from where I planned on touching down and about fifty feet in the air, the engine suddenly developed full power. I circled the airport and climbed up to 4,000 feet. Everything seemed fine and I flew twenty miles for fuel. The engine ran smooth on the take off from that airport and ran smooth to my destination and back to home base.  Before this problem I changed the fuel filter, air filter, oil (added AVBLEND), and cleaned my plugs and the injector screen.  Fram no longer makes my fuel filter and I have been using a NAPA NASCAR filter for the past two filter changes. I did notice that my fuel flow on the departures  had dropped from my usual 18 gallons per hour to just above 14 gallons per hour. I removed the injectors, cleaned them  and reinstalled them. The fuel flow has returned to the 18 gallons per hour.  Anybody have any ideas what may have happened?

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Bruce(at)glasair.org
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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:57 am Post subject: Glasair-List Digest: 0 Msgs - 06/06/06

I would  remove the Fram filter and replace it with an Andair  gascolator.

  

 http://www.andair.co.uk/system/index.html

  

  

 

Bruce

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