Hi all,
I have a patriot with a ys 45 in it. Awesome combo. anyway, 2 weeks ago i had a dead stick because i ran out of fuel. i didn;t make back to the field and ended up in about a 3 foot stream that is on the south end of our field. I thought my plane was gone because of the noise it made. anyway when i got to it it was floating right side up on the water with a little nose damage(am i lucky or what) since then it has been rebuilt. I poored glow fuel into the cylnder and just turned it over a few times. I also sprayed wd40 in it to take the water out. I recently started it up and the engine runs pretty decent but i am not getting the rpms out of it and when i lean it out it wants to quit or when i make it rich it has a tough time idleing. this has happened to me before and i replaced the glow plug and that cured it. My question after all of this is, by running an engine at high rpm alot , will this cause glow plug to start to go bad, when i looked at it tonight it looks pretty silverish/white. Any suggestions? Did the water do any damage. I cleaned it out right away.
dave