For those of you following my progress since my forced landing upon leaving the 2006 KR Gathering, the following is how things have progressed. After getting the plane home on a trailer, I proceeded to rebuild my carburetor by doing a through cleaning and installing a new gasket and diaphragm. I had virtually convinced myself that this was the culprit of my sudden engine loss at 6500' and 75 miles out of Mount Vernon (MVN). This past Saturday I was finally ready to start the engine and do some run up testing. She started on the first turn of the prop and ran smooth at idle. I let her stay there till she warmed up good. I watched the idle fuel/air mixture and I was getting a green light indication with occasional drop into the lean (yellow bar) zone. I thought this a little odd. Once she warmed up, I slowly increased power and immediately noticed the engine was running rough and the roughness was really pronounced at and above 2000 rpm. That is when I decided to do a compression check. This link to my web page will show you all what I found. http://flykr2s.com/photo.html All comments and questions are welcome.
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Wales, WI My Web site: http://www.flykr2s.com/ Mailto:flyk...@wi.rr.com
