Kent's Lower 48

[kentb]

Well the adventure is about to begin.
My plan is to fly the lower 48 states, including landings at Oshkosh, First Flight, Leadville, and Death Vally. I will be leaving tomorrow Thrusday around noon (9/2/10) and need to be back to work on Monday (9/13/10). I am also hoping to visit my daughter on Monday in Virgina.
Here is the planned route:
http://www.runwayfinder.com/?loc=7s9...;ktsp;kove;7s9

My friend Randy has loaned my his SPOT so you will be able to track me here:
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/f...ENzq4HMdqtWIW2

I'll try to update this link with information each night, if I have internet service and time.

Kent

[apkp777]

Have a great flight Kent. We'll see you in WI.

Fair skies and tailwinds all the way!

[Greg Arehart]

Kent,

Which direction are you going? I'll be at LXV this coming Saturday....

greg

[kentb]

Originally Posted by Greg Arehart

Kent,

Which direction are you going? I'll be at LXV this coming Saturday....

greg

Saturday I'll be in RI. That is if the weather doesn't keep me away.

Kent

[Ron Lee]

He is making good time. I am using the Spot website but wish the tracks gave altitude and speed.

Then I checked flightaware and it was outdated.

[apkp777]

Welcome to Wisconsin Kent! How about those 29kt winds on landing.

[kentb]

Tony Phillips, picked me up at the airport. He treated me to some Wisconsin fish fry. I really enjoyed the food and also the company of Tony and his friend Ken and both their wives.

I didn't have internet last night at Helena so I couldn't post my progress.

I need to stop in Spokane International for a couple of hours for the A&P to check out my strange # 2 cylinder behavior. I could get the engine to lean like I normally do. I can usually run 30 degree LOP and # 2 is the first to lean. It will peak about 1430 and then I bring it down to 1400. Now it just keeps going higher. I stopped leaning after it reached 1500. I richened until the EGT got back down to 1400. At this point #2 CHT is 50 degrees lower then the others and the EGT on the others are 100 to 150 lower than # 2.

Anyway they check everything out and declared the engine fit, just run it rich.

So on I go, but now burning about 1 gal more an hour.

Tony has an idea that I might have an intake leak and will help me tomorrow morning to check it out.

I lost my camera in Helena, so can post any pictures (sorry). I try to get another on so that I can take some pictures.

Hope the weather will let me continue east tomorrow.

Kent

[apkp777]

This is not a good thing when you are 1800 miles from home. I know a great A&P mechanic, too bad he wasn't around, so Kent had to rely on me instead. The engine had high EGT and Low CHT on #2. Some A&P in Helena, MT checked the injectors and it didn't help. By the time Kent got to OSH the #2 cylinder would only run on his Lightspeed and the Slick mag was dead. We swapped plugs, checked for the obvious, but no avail. I figured it must be a bad ignition lead, so we dug around our maintenance shop and found a brand new harness that we made fit even though not perfectly.

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[panhandler1956]

God Speed Kent! Sounds like a great time!

[Ironflight]

Looks like you're makign good time today Kent - good luck, and keep lookign at the weather!

(I just looked at your planned route - I can't beleive the Native Texans aren't up in arms - you seem to be taking great pains to avoid the state....)