rhtrudder

Burrs , I think aren't much of a problem when it come to spreading seed compared to bindies , I see the spikes now stuck in tyres everywhere , what a nightmare it will be like trying to clean up the European carp mess , no hope!

I do understand about landing on roads but have seen plenty of news footage of planes landing on freeways when the choice is plowing into someone house , unsure whether they would be in trouble with the authitories

Doubt whether he had a radio looked like he had ear plugs , had one engine out on take off and put it down in the next paddock had a bit of luck, often thought about whether you should try for a road most of the paddocks would tear the wheels off my plane.

New bowls turned up so everything will be back to standard.

Did you understand about the enricher solenoid

Thanks a lot for your interest, against all advice I ended up using a fuel tolerant gasket goo, I know I will be crucified for it but in the end it was the only way I could stop the leaks , the fuel leak was of high float levels, bought the gold plated tool and fixed that , easy, but still had air leaking , I could actually hear it when I blew down the vent tube , have ordered the new upgraded bowls which are apparently more stiffer , on back order, so naturally I couldn't wait and glued the old bowls on , waited for 24 hrs for it to set and no more leaks , time for blast off, motor running like it should . I am the third owner ,470 hrs on the clock when I first hopped in now has done 1330 , for a complicated engine it has given me little to complain about , again bones thanks for your insight

It's called a enricher solenoid (or valve ). On full boost it switches to allow a bit more pressure ,taken from a different part of the air box , to give more pressure in the bowls , it's fitted to later model 914s , if I blow in the tube and move the throttle to full I still can't get and air through so I am unsure wether it also takes a pressure reading from the air box as well before it switches

That's exactly what I intend to do once the fire restrictions come off

Using a spray that is supposed to kill the seed mixed with roundup but I think I will have to did the plants out and burn them

I think we are talking about the same weed, see barbs stuck in ag tyres all the time, got no hope of clearing it up , I reckon they could germinate on concrete. there is probably no way to stop the out of balance now that you have pointed out the speed differences , thinking back I thought we tried it in a savannah and it shook the shit out of the airframe and never really improved

Think I might have to go with the slime , Slime it is then , looks like I'm stuck with them.

4.00 *4 8 ply not a lot of rubber where the tread is , they don't last very long and I land mostly on grass ( and bindies ) I think the trouble with the goo is you cant patch them which would be messy when away from home

Does it send it out of balance

The tyres on my plane are a weird size very small because of the retracts, has anyone had any success with the goo

I have got all the spraying gear and have done that , we own a farm , only takes a rain and they reappear, up until a couple of years ago I had never come across them but one of my boys goes away ag contracting and I reckon he carted them back , small spiky burs that stick in rubber, yellow flowers , getting good at fixing flats ,after they have dried up the seed pods are still sharp

Can't do , much prefer to share my disasters with anyone

Airstrip has now got bindies on it , continue to spray but I reckon they will beat me can't quite get rid of them thought of torching the plants to maybe fry the seeds, now plagued with flats , has anyone had any success with the goo you can put in the tubes ,for some reason I have some doubts. Greg

Does the solenoid enrichment valve only switch looking at throttle position or does it also check against air box pressure , moving the throttle past 108 doesn't open the valve , any ideas?

Is it possible to set the float height using the Rotax gauge without taking the Carbys off

Not many L2 around here pretty much on your own , have ordered those other gaskets , checked the floats ,filled up the float bowl an they both floated at the same level , the one that leaked was that on a 914 if it was leaking fuel did you have to adjust the float height

The worry is some of it ending up in the bowl and blocking a jet Thanks Mike

I didn't know about these ,so someone else has obviously had the same problem , thanks for the info rick , I will try and get some. Did you get yours from the states downunder how come you didn't use them.

Wal did mention that I will have to get one I just dropped the level a small amount and it stopped leaking but now are still loosing pressure ,the gasket is made out of paper material and seems to be to hard to seal ,back in my motorcycle mechanic days I reckon they were made of neoprene can't understand why Bing don't do the same. The 912 engine don't pressurise the float bowls so it doesn't matter , starting to reach for some sort of sealer don't know what else to do.

Fixed the leak ,didn't need much adjustment but after blowing down each breather the right one is loosing air past the gasket maybe the body is out of shape left one holds pressure

Still leaked with new gasket talking to Wal he seems to think the float height may be to high as the fuel in the bowls which I didn't know ,is nearly at the top so it doesn't need to be out much to make it leak