Daniel.
I am still wondering what the benefit of your intend is. Even if you are measuring let's say one inch off, what would you do with that data? Would you relocate the carburetor or the tank? Both locations are given facts - designed to the airframe, even if a inspired mechanic did some work on your aircraft, I doubt that your plane differs in this regard from other Ercoupes. Be advised that power loss can easily happen when valves get stuck or simply a wire shortcuts itself in a nose high attitude. If that wire happens to be the p-lead of one of your magnetos, you will feel it as loss of power. If your carburetor is clean and the float level adjusted properly and the fuel supply gushes down through your gascolator in a stream, the fuel supply to your carburetor is sufficient for any flight attitude. This is part of the aircraft design. No aircraft that cuts out an engine in a steep climb would have gotten approval from the CAA. I am tending to believe that you are focusing on the wrong thing in your analysis. Heck, you can just have a malfunctioning ignition switch that shortcuts the p-leads in a nose high attitude. Did you do a compression check on the engine? I would make sure first that the health of the engine is not compromised before jumping to conclusions. Hartmut www.ercoupe.info To: [email protected]; [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:44:43 -0700 Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] how to measure Distance between header tank output and carburetor So, water and plastic tubing: It seems the easiest and accurate way far, you really convinced me !!! Thank you very much Bill for such an extraordinary method !!!! Now have to wait until someone can make the measure and told us the reading (remember, 415-CD with Marvel carb). Fantastic ! Best regards Daniel . _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail®: Get e-mail storage that grows with you. http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Storage2_042009
