Are you turning blue yet from holding your breath....I would love to see a DA75

RickP,

If you sent it to AI I would verify what they did. I can speak from experience on this one. Please understand I am not trashing AI at this point in time. Last evening, I pulled the carb/carb block back off and here is what I found.

According to a phone call I had with AI, they used Loctite 518 to reseal the carb block to the crankcase, I found no hint of it. I have not been able to get the engine to run for more than a second or two but they said they had it running multiple times over the course of a half hour but even still that should not have burned it off. They did replace the reeds as they said. I also know they replaced the hall sensor as that is obvious.

I did what Ralph suggested which was the same thing AI suggested and no go and all this was done again on my test stand and not in the plane.

I called Bobby at Cactus and he thinks I am looking at something seriously wrong in the carb if not the ignition itself. He is sending me a new carb which went out last night but considering the holidays I will not see it until late next week, if I'm lucky. Oh well... If that does not do it then we'll look at the ignition next. We're doing the carb first because he believes that since I am getting drips from the needles it's an air leak problem.