OS 140RX Need Help
<div><div><font color="#000080" size="2"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt">I’m trying to get a plane going to make the Quincy, OH contest next weekend…</span></font></div><div><font color="#000080" size="2"></font></div><div><font color="#000080" size="2"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt">When running at idle or the engine isn’t running, fuel leaks out of the carb. I can get it started, but loads up in about ten seconds and bogs down and dies when increasing the throttle…</span></font></div><div><font color="#000080" size="2"></font></div><div><font color="#000080" size="2"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt">If I pinch the fuel line, it leans out and recovers. As long as I stay near full throttle it’s fine…When at half throttle and lower it will bog down….</span></font></div><div><font color="#000080" size="2"></font></div><div><font color="#000080" size="2"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt">HS needle is at about 1-3/4 out leanedit was aboutabout 2 turns out before I leaned it a bit. I don’t know the pump settings. Tank sits on the cross brace under the canopy above the wing tube in a Temptation.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000080" size="2"></font></div><div><font color="#000080" size="2"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt">This is a used engine already installed in a plane…</span></font></div><div><font color="#000080" size="2"></font></div><div><font color="#000080" size="2"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt">Is it just a matter of the pump pressure being too high or do I have other problems to deal with…???</span></font></div><div><font color="#000080" size="2"></font></div><div><font color="#000080" size="2"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt">Larry Diamond</span></font></div><div><font color="#000080" size="2"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt">NSRCA 3083</span></font></div></div>