ORIGINAL: snacker
ORIGINAL: Ferocious Frankie
ORIGINAL: snacker
ORIGINAL: Ferocious Frankie
2) Turn the engine over until fuel comes out of the breather line. You want fuel to come out of the breather line. (It might be flooding, but I don't get any sort of hydraulic lock with this method)
OK. I think I've got it except for this part. When you refer to turning the engine over, what does that mean exactly. Spin the prop counterclockwise till fuel comes out the hose in the back of the engine?
Here's the best picture of the bottom of the engine with the breather line is. It comes out about an inch and a half where the cheeks of the plane meet in the middle.
Thanks again.
Exactly, but you have to completely close the cabureator (close the throttle all the way) and plug your muffler with your finger. You have to keep the carbureator and muffler plugged the whole time while "you are turning over the engine". This is where a throttle kill on your radio helps or if you don't have a radio with a throttle cut, just put your throttle to zero and throttle trim to zero.
You will "turn the engine over" until fuel comes out of the breather line.
"You should hear a wet suction sound. That is when you know you have primed the engine correctly. Again, you might be flooding, but you shouldn't get any sort of lock.
4) Turn the prop so it is on its compression stroke and attach your glow starter.
5) Flip the prop against compression with a chicken stick and your engine should start on the first flip. If not, just flip a couple of more times and it will start."
Gotcha on the engine priming. Flipping against compression does that mean clockwise or counter-clockwise? Is this how engines can start backward?
Thanks.
Flip counter clockwise. Your engine starts counter clockwise as it should. The engine can start backwards because of that and/or because of residual fuel on the carbureator.