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5 hours.<\/p>\n

Today was about putting things back together and getting a handle on some of the chaos. \u00a0 The first bit of good news is that the oil temperature probe works fine. \u00a0I pulled it out of the engine and hit it with a heat gun and sure enough, it gave me a reading. \u00a0So I’m not going to worry about that anymore. \u00a0 I secured the wires back in their bundle and i’m calling that squawk done.<\/p>\n

I also wasn’t real happy about the weird way I had the fuel pressure sensor set up. \u00a0The Adel clamp holding it was maybe a size bigger than it should have been, and this way seems more secure:<\/p>\n

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As I mentioned last time, I flipped the governor arm over and it seems to work just fine:<\/p>\n

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My biggest problem with doing it this way was where the injector line was going to go. \u00a0 A piece of angle solved that. \u00a0 Now it’s out of the way, and less likely to be heat-soaked down near the cylinder. \u00a0I still haven’t safety-wired the screws yet, or put the cotter pin in the cable attach nut, But I think this is how it’ll stay.<\/p>\n

Last week, Owen recommended tightening up the tailwheel chains. \u00a0 Van’s recommends a half an inch of slack, but if you ask ten different people how they like their tailwheel chains, and you’ll get at least five different answers. But my chains had an inch of slack, and if I took a link out, I’d have none. \u00a0But I did take a link out of each side, and while there isn’t really any dangling slack, I can move the chains up and down by about a half an inch, and I’ll tell you, based on today’s test, it taxis just fine:<\/p>\n

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That little gap in the rudder fairing is kind of annoying. \u00a0 Not exactly sure what to do there, except put nutplates in there and hope for the best.<\/p>\n

Today’s test was all about seeing how things went with the cowl on. \u00a0First, I wanted to make sure I could actually get the cowl on with the flipped-over governor bracket making the cable rise a bit more than it did before. \u00a0 Turns out, I’ve got about 1\/8″ of clearance between the cable and the top cowl, which is good enough. \u00a0 And from what I remember, the cowl inflates a little in flight, so that 1\/8″ becomes a little more. \u00a0 And that’s fine. \u00a0 I just don’t want to have to put a clearance wart in the cowl to accommodate the cable.<\/p>\n

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But before taking it out for another test, this adjustment had to be made to the baffle material on the lower cowl. \u00a0I had to cut it back a bit, because it was covering up about 6 square inches of air intake. \u00a0 Bad. \u00a0 So with this mod in place, I put the top cowl on, and pinned it down. \u00a0 Then I put a few of the floor panels in, and you’d be surprised how much the plane stiffens up with the reinforcing action of the panels. \u00a0 I ran it up, then shut down the left mag. \u00a0Engine died. \u00a0 Started it again, repeated. \u00a0 OK, right mag dead. \u00a0 Grr. \u00a0 Still runs fine on one though.<\/p>\n

So I said screw it, let’s taxi it around. \u00a0The new tailwheel chain tension was much better. \u00a0Now it’s more like Mickey’s Citabria, and the ground handling is nice! \u00a0I took it to the end of the hangar row, turned right, went down the next row, turned right again, then went back to the barn. \u00a0CHT’s never got above 210. \u00a0 As soon as I get this mag situation sorted out, it’s time for ground runs.<\/p>\n

\\Last time, shutting off the left Mag made a lot of popping and missing, which I attributed to timing. \u00a0 This time, I’m pretty sure the timing’s right, but now shutting off the right mag shuts off the engine. \u00a0Now, it might have something to do with the fact that I left the pop-rivet I was using for a timing pin in the hole when I pulled the prop through, but I can’t say for sure. \u00a0 What I do know is that before, on the right mag, I had backfiring. \u00a0 Now I’ve got squat.<\/p>\n

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5 hours. Today was about putting things back together and getting a handle on some of the chaos. \u00a0 The first bit of good news is that the oil temperature probe works fine. \u00a0I pulled it out of the engine and hit it with a heat gun and sure enough, it gave me a reading. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3,68,5,6],"tags":[64,21,27,67,31],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}