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Old 08-16-2005 | 12:47 PM
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Default RE: gas fuel with glo plug no ignition

Made a new batch of fuel. Equal amounts of gas and methanol, KL 100 at a 32 to 1 ratio, and 10% either. Spray the can into the mixture with a submerged tube style. Ran better lost about 100 rpm but it's 20 degrees warmer now also. Better acceleration. Then it started to act up, like it wasn't getting fuel. Checked the glow plug, looked suspicious. Put it back on mag and ran fine, much better acceleration also. About 7200 wot but not smooth, surged. Put on the 16x8 again and that problem went away. Was over speeding the carb I suspect. It's still the little weedie carb. Would idle down to 1200, 1400 reliably. Plug I think was one that came with a Saito a couple years ago. They were never the best. Also I was over powering it occasionaly to see if it helped, may have damaged it. One thing I did see about that plug was that it never glowed the very outer coil of the element. Closest to the combustion chamber, maybe another problem? My adapter I built puts the end of the glow plug even with it. Is that ok? Starting to look promising. I need to dig thru my pile of carbs for something bigger.
Do you think the castor in the Klotz 100 is a problem? I also have some KL 200 total synthetic and their R 50.