Mark, I just had a simular experience with my oil temp gauge. Flying along and my oil temp went from 160 to zero. Shocked me and started to check other gauges. Engine was running fine. All of a sudden 170 oil temp. I have a sending unit on order.
Joe Merrill On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Mark Jones wrote: > This evening was the first time I have had time to fly since Oct 10th. > The outside temp was 36 degrees when I took to the sky. Boy did she > climb in the cold air! Anyway, after takeoff and level at 3000 I > scanned the gauges and noticed my oil pressure was fluctuating from 60 > to 80 PSI. Normally at 3150 rpm I show 40 PSI. This of course got my > attention so I reduced the throttle to 2700 RPM and the pressure fell > to 40 PSI. I increased it back up to 3150 rpm and away went the oil > pressure back up to 60-80 and not holding steady anywhere. Just for > $&)%$ and grins I opened her up to full throttle and she began to run > rough. I decided to stay very close to the airport and do a lap or > two. Things did not get any better so I went in for a nice landing and > back to the hanger. As I was taxiing back it dawned on me that the > temps were cold and the Corvair likes nice warm air to run smooth at > cruise. I did not prepare for the cold temps when flying so I have now > dismissed the rough running engine to the cold temps and not feeding > any warm air into the carb. As far as the oil pressure I am gambling > on it being a bad sending unit and will replace that before my next > flight. Oh, did I mention we have had snow flurries here the last two > days. Man I wish I still lived in the south. > > > Mark Jones (N886MJ) > Stevens Point, WI > E-mail: flykr2s at charter.net > Web: www.flykr2s.com > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to > KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to > change options
