aftCG
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Anyone here every have a primer stop working with little notice?
Looking back I probably had a warning I ignored. My plane has typically always started cold with three pumps.
The past few months it has taken four but I wrote it off to cold weather.
Last week I went up to abuse the pattern and had a hell of a time getting it started. I added a fifth and sixth pump and then concluded that I must have flooded it.
I got out and looked for gas running out of the cowl (none), let it rest and then went through a flooded engine procedure. Not a cough.
More primer (a lot more) and it eventually it stumbled to life. Ran perfectly after that.
Well the same thing happened two days ago. I went through the same logic of suspecting it was flooded. It wasn't.
Real sure my primer isn't priming now. Is that common?
One thing my IA pointed out was that the Citabria has the primer line come off the fuel shut off valve up stream of the actual shut off which means I might have to drain the fuel system before opening the primer mechanism.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Looking back I probably had a warning I ignored. My plane has typically always started cold with three pumps.
The past few months it has taken four but I wrote it off to cold weather.
Last week I went up to abuse the pattern and had a hell of a time getting it started. I added a fifth and sixth pump and then concluded that I must have flooded it.
I got out and looked for gas running out of the cowl (none), let it rest and then went through a flooded engine procedure. Not a cough.
More primer (a lot more) and it eventually it stumbled to life. Ran perfectly after that.
Well the same thing happened two days ago. I went through the same logic of suspecting it was flooded. It wasn't.
Real sure my primer isn't priming now. Is that common?
One thing my IA pointed out was that the Citabria has the primer line come off the fuel shut off valve up stream of the actual shut off which means I might have to drain the fuel system before opening the primer mechanism.
Any thoughts appreciated.