G-26 ZENOAH, FLAMES OUT
I have a Zenoah G-26 that seems to have an afraid of height phobia. This engine will run
great on the ground. It will purr like a kitten at idle all day long. When I rev it up to maximum
rpm's it runs like a champ. When I taxi it out to the flight line, take off; do a couple of loops
around the field, it will flame out. Sometimes it seems like it is loosing power, power gets less
and less and then it just flames out. Other times it will be running fine in the air, and all of a
sudden just like the gas was gone from every orifice of the motor. I changed all of the gas lines
from the tank to the carb a couple of times, so I don't think I have a fuel line problem. I put a
nipple on the carb diaphragm and ran fuel line back into the fuselage for that static pressure solution
and it seems to run fine with that fix. I have a 16x8 prop. I have all winter to figure it out, would like
some constructive criticism on what to do next. Thanks, Aframe2