I have the o360 a1a engine with the Marvel Schebler 10-3878 carb on an RV6a.
Everything was fine til the other day when at low rpm the engine ran horribly and wanted to quit. It coughed and popped and was clearly not right. At higher rpm it runs better but clearly something is wrong.
Yesterday my mechanic removed the carb and cleaned everything and flew the plane home (to my airport) flawlessly. Ran great.
This morning it's doing the same terrible thing again. A quick look in my logs reveal that this carb was put on (carb #2) only 110 hours ago. THEN, it was rebuilt 10 hours later. And now it needs another!!! My engine has only 1000 hours on it.
Questions.... why would my plane need 2 carbs in only 1000 hours and within 100 hours need 2 more rebuilds??? Absolutely senseless.
Is there a gascolator on these planes and is there not a fuel filter? I could simply find neither (clearly a Flyer - not a builder)
Hellllp?
Everything was fine til the other day when at low rpm the engine ran horribly and wanted to quit. It coughed and popped and was clearly not right. At higher rpm it runs better but clearly something is wrong.
Yesterday my mechanic removed the carb and cleaned everything and flew the plane home (to my airport) flawlessly. Ran great.
This morning it's doing the same terrible thing again. A quick look in my logs reveal that this carb was put on (carb #2) only 110 hours ago. THEN, it was rebuilt 10 hours later. And now it needs another!!! My engine has only 1000 hours on it.
Questions.... why would my plane need 2 carbs in only 1000 hours and within 100 hours need 2 more rebuilds??? Absolutely senseless.
Is there a gascolator on these planes and is there not a fuel filter? I could simply find neither (clearly a Flyer - not a builder)
Hellllp?