Showing posts with label engine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label engine. Show all posts

Sunday, October 27, 2024

An acceptable level of risk

There's risk in life. I've had more close calls driving on I-5 to/from work than I've had in airplanes. 

 

I've been working on the engine and fuel system, Rotax recommends a gascolator before the fuel pumps and I've bashed my way into a concussion banging my head trying to figure out a way to put one in the narrow confines of the SeaRey's fuel compartment. I've come up with a few ways to do it, but the hard part is maintaining and repairing it afterward. I'm sure there's a way, maybe, eventually, but after a year of working on it off and on I've decided that I'll accept the risk of not having a gascolator before the fuel pumps and stay with the standard SeaRey method of a fuel filter in the compartment, then a gascolator downstream on the root tube later on as others have done.



Installing is easy, but there will be a non-openable window where when she's flying, and I won't be able to get in this way, instead any access will be via the very narrow quarter circle behind the seat.




Saturday, November 25, 2023

Medusa uncombed

 We're working on her, but all the wiring is proprietary to Jim Ratte, the SeaRey Specialist, so I can't show you how or what we've been doing, sorry. 


If you don't run your engine within 12 months of delivery the warranty is void, but can be extended if certain procedures are followed. The wood 2x4 gives me leverage to do the prescribed procedure.