Last September when I was departing the KR Gathering at MVN, I was at about 1200' on climb out from the airport when I experienced a sudden engine stoppage. Boy it really gets quiet in a KR awful fast when that engine quits. Like Joe, I immediately lowered the nose and turned back towards the airport and set up a glide for landing. The next thing I did was to switch to my secondary ignition. I hit the start button and she fired right back up and I started circling and climbing. The next thing I did was really dumb and that was to continue on to Pontiac, Illinois which was 150 miles away. Since this was my halfway point home, I decided to land, fuel and check things out. I found that the primary high voltage wire had broken at the coil where the terminal was crimped on the wire. This was also a factory crimped wire, not one that I had done. I stripped the end of the wire, stuck it under the terminal nut on the coil and flew that coil the rest of the way home. My bets are that Joe experienced an ignition failure. I just hope it is an easy fix so he can make the KR/OSHKOSH Mini Gathering at my hangar the weekend of the 22nd.
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Wales, WI Web site: www.flykr2s.com Mailto:flyk...@wi.rr.com -----Original Message----- From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net]On Behalf Of Mark Langford Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 10:14 AM To: KRnet Subject: Re: KR> post mortum Kenny W wrote: > Ignition issues will not lock up the eng > in flight unless the timing gets so far outa wack that a cyl fires while > its > way advanced. I'm sure you're not saying that something like a shorted condenser wire or high voltage coil wire that's come loose wouldn't stop that engine instantly, but it's sort of worded that way. I once pulled my "throttle" out on crosswind since I was almost to pattern altitude, and the engine stopped pretty much instantly. It turns out I'd pulled the mixture out instead of the throttle, and that's all it took to kill it, and I had no clue as to what'd happened. Fortunately Bill Clapp was sitting next to me and leaned over and stuff the mixture in and restarted it while I was still processing that the prop was dead in front of my face! All of this took about three seconds, start to finish. With high compression and small diameter props, if anything happens to the ignition or fuel, the prop's going to stop pretty quick, in my experience. I'm glad to hear that Joe's problem might not be in the bottom end... Mark Langford, Harvest, AL see homebuilt airplane at http://www.N56ML.com email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
