Originally Posted by
FlyerInOKC
I'm looking for suggestions from the Saito brain trust we have in this thread. The patient is an old Saito .80 that hasn't been run in sometime sitting inverted in a 1/5th scale Cub. I can get it started long enough to hiccup and shed it's prop even with double prop nuts. After the last try she wouldn't even start. I prefer not to be pulling the engine out, its a major undertaking, since I built a box firewall to move the engine back rather than extend the nose out to make the engine fit.
Fly, the earliest Saito .80 had 15.5 to 1 compression and demands respect, it will kick the prop off if it even thinks you'resetting it lean. When leaning the HS needle, sneak up on the peak as in one click, pause, one more and pause. At some point one of the clicks will slow it a little, that's as far as you dare go.
http://sceptreflight.com/Model%20Eng...o%20FA-80.html