Hello everyone.
I am new in this forum (Actually this is my first post) and I just entered RCU to be able to post in this thread. I bought a DA 50 in May 2004 (first gas engine also). The serial # is 1477. My engine does not have the new rod or the new pressure line location.[]. Besides, I am in Colombia (south America) so sending the engine back in case something happens will be very difficult for me.[:@]
The engine have not been started yet so I will just go ahead and run it and hope for the best. In the meantime I have two questions:
The first one (Maybe RCIGN can help) is that according to what I have seen, the new pressure pulse line location is OK for solving the problem if the engine is inverted but it has to be in a different place if the engine is horizontal (mine will be). What I mean is that the fuel tend to puddle in the bottom of the carb block and this (where the fuel will puddle) changes if the engine is mounted inverted or horizontal. (I hope I explained this right)
The second question is: has anybody run many gallons through an engine with the old rod whithout any failure. I am sure engines previous to mine (#1477) don´t have the new rod and if someone has put one of these engines to serious work (300+ flights) whithout failure there is hope for me.
I thank everyone
Regards,
Andres