ORIGINAL: mrbigg
ORIGINAL: captinjohn
My 2 cents....have the oil ratio a little rich...not the hi-speed needle. It is your choise also on cowl. Having it off you can check the bolts on everthing easy, and when satisfied,...place cowl on. It is good to re-check mounting bolts ect after the first couple of flights. Always have a line from pump cover into dead air in fuse. Capt,n
That's how I roll, the same as the Capn'!
I like to check the bolts after each flight for the first several. Plus if it's a new plane and you smoke it into the ground on the maiden, you could always sell somebody the NIB cowl.
Oww, I did that myself once....sold the cowl back to myself. Smashed my DLE55/Reactor combo straight in last October after not checking Rx batteries[&o]. Hadn't mounted the cowl yet; now I have a spare! Good news was that Jody from Valley View repaired my DLE, and though it was a little tighter than the original (7400rpm just before the wreck, 71-7200 on the new one at first), I now have over 30 flights on the new one at 14 minutes per, and she's loosened up nicely. Back to 7400 on a 22x8 Xoar...