flooded engine / start tips
 

can someone help... I have a lite machine with a vmax7 engine...

I know squat about glow fuel engines...

I do know it's flooded...

can someone give me a step by step way to de-flood it and how to start it?

it's a brand new engine.

also if your online, and have yahoo messenger or aol....

My aol name is Skrcro
my yahoo name is Djskarecrow

flooded engine / start tips
 

How do you know it's flooded?

Is the starter shaft extremely hard to turn? When mine is flooded, the electric starter won't even crank it.

What I do when mine is flooded is to take the fuel line off of the carburetor, throttle fully cut, crank the starter shaft coupler with my fingers a few times, then try to spin it up with the starter motor. Repeat with fingers if necessary. After a few moments, it's unflooded and ready to go.

Others may have a better suggestion.

-Paul

flooded engine / start tips
 

unscrew your glowplug, disconnect the fuel line, crank the starter a few turns and you are back in business

flooded engine / start tips
 

ok guys, problem one solved...... now onto problem two.

when I give it full throttle she won't lift off the ground.

I'm guessing I have to bend the main roter blades into shape.

plus my tail roter seems like it wants to whip around real real fast on me.

should I bump the tail control down a notch on the servo to make it less reactive?

that's it... I think the rest is just making everything frogs ass water tight.

flooded engine / start tips
 

sean
like i said i dont know this heli,now what gyro are you useing,cause i think the gyro needs to be reversed from what you say about the tail wanting to whip around on you,not sure how you set the pitch angles on this heli but check to see if they are set up right so it will hover

flooded engine / start tips
 

scott, maybe if your not too far from me we can hook up one day soon and I'll have you look at it.

The model is a Lite machine corona.

suposed to be the "perfect" beginner model heli. but damn.... this thing is mid-evil.

my e-mail is [email protected]

you should send me your phone number and we should chat.