I have an RV-4 with a carburated O-360 180 hp engine (-A1D). One side is a bendix mag, the other is Lightspeed ignition. Recently, I have noticed that when I am decending at a relatively high speed and reduce the throttle to idle so that the plane decelerates, it feels like the engine quits running, or or sometimes quits for 2-3 seconds, then runs, then quits for 2-3 seconds... If I open the throttle when it is doing this it always runs, but it is nerve wracking. I always wonder if this will be (another) dead stick landing.
Do any of you engine guys have an idea what may be causing this? It would be nice to get it fixed.
Do any of you engine guys have an idea what may be causing this? It would be nice to get it fixed.