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Thanks for sharing this Scott, it is nice to know there are good folks around in this community within Kitfox
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Excellent writeup Scott.
I was also very impressed with the group of people that were at the Ryan fly-in last weekend. It seemed all of us wanted to stay and help you, but it didn't seem prudent to have another 4+ planes there so the rest of us continued back to Ryan airfield. Even when we got there most of us were ready to go back to Meadowcreek and help if we could. After John got back he was on the phone trying to get help and answers for your problem. Indeed, what a great group of people, especially John and Deb McBean.
BTW it isn't clear, did you get your plane fixed? Did another set of carbs get it going?
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Excellent writeup Scott.
I was also very impressed with the group of people that were at the Ryan fly-in last weekend. It seemed all of us wanted to stay and help you, but it didn't seem prudent to have another 4+ planes there so the rest of us continued back to Ryan airfield. Even when we got there most of us were ready to go back to Meadowcreek and help if we could. After John got back he was on the phone trying to get help and answers for your problem. Indeed, what a great group of people, especially John and Deb McBean.
BTW it isn't clear, did you get your plane fixed? Did another set of carbs get it going?
Yes, we got it fixed. The original problem was it would not rev past 4000 rpm. It was smooth from idle to 4000, mag check at 4000 was within 50 both sides, but as soon as you throttled past 4000 it would run rough. We cleaned the jets, checked floats, changed fuel pumps, checked regulator, crossover, plugs, lifters all with no result. So when we went back the next day we had a fuel pressure gauge, spare known good carb set, spare cdi's(thank you Stan Inzer) and a lot more tools. Swapped the carbs and problem went away. When I got home I did a autopsy on the carbs, turns out it was the diaphragm. Kind of nice to find the smoking gun as it was driving us crazy!
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Scott, I had no idea you had trouble over there. I thought with pics of the trip all went fine and you made it back ok. Crazy when you finally find the problem, what it ends up being. glad you got it fixed and above all, got your plane back home.