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Are you kidding.. How about a loose fuel line ?? A slightly loose fitting can leak air in a line with almost no indication. It doesn't take much, just one dry rotted gasket.. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 2:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [COUPERS-TECH] More 87 Octane Controversy ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Vapor lock??? On a Coupe??? How ??? The Carb is gravity fed and vented. How about Carb Ice or water in gas after sitting around for the annual. I am flying with auto gas since 3 Years and there was not a single problem with that. 100LL creates other problems in smaller engines due to the extreme high amount of Lead. Hartmut N3330H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > I've been paying close attention to the recent stuff on car gas and hadn'nt had any problems of my own. I pretty much wrote it off to "hype".. I live in the northeast. When I gassed up two weeks ago, it was 36 degrees out. I scheduled my plane 1958 Forney F1 for its annual. The first opportunity to fly again was yesterday afternoon at a temperature of 86 degrees. 1-1/2 minutes into the flight, past the runway, at 200 AGL, the RPM dropped to 1000 and wouldn't budge. I did the scan, radioed to the field I was going down and was lucky enough, God was in my right seat) to land in a small farmers field. No injury, no damage to the plane. As it was, there were 8 or 10 people at the airport doing some hangar flying. In less than twenty minutes a force was organized and trailer made available to get the plane out of the field and back to the airport. I'm a new pilot and I'm still learning, but the response was awe inspiring and the results were good, complete and darn near > miraculous > . > > Two lessons learned I want to share > > Vapor lock caused the incident and I've permanently switched to 100LL. > > President Bush was right. With the cooperative spirit and automatic response we have to help each other (all out when neccesary) are what make this country a place to be proud of and part of. > > N7526C, Sidney NY > ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bz8Sid.bAhN69 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
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