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    The end of July I flew out to Suches GA to the Just-Aircraft fly-in out at Kennedy Creek, which is in northern GA.  I was flying in the STOL competition they had there (not cause a had a chance and beating the Just-Aircraft but more for practice than anything)   and on my first landing my right rudder peddles broke, unfortunately my peddles hadn't been reinforced, which then resulted in a ground loop. 

    One of the spectators got a video of my incident and shared it with me, so here it is.    https://youtu.be/rIkYKB6JHQE.  

     

  2. Posted · Edited by FireFoxIV

    Wow. that is light!!!

    You musta done somethin right

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    You can buy an inexpensive USB camera and go in and look through the wing tip at almost anything you want to look at. I bought one with something like 20 feet of cord attached and it works pretty darn well. Even has a ring of dimmable LED lights on the camera and it's barely larger than a pencil. I just tape it to a long stick and inspect away. Not perfect, but works OK. I wouldn't try and punch a bunch of holes since you can do a pretty good job inspecting as I just described.

    thanks Chris. That's sound a lot easier:rolleyes:

    I really wasnt look forward to cutting holes in my fabric

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    The wing tips are removable. I had an A$P tell me there wasnt enough inspection covers in the wings and that I was gonna have to put a bunch more in. But maybe there doesn't need to be that many?

  9. Posted · Edited by FireFoxIV

    I made my landing and takeoff lines 400' apart. So I could land on a 400' runway(not that I would). My combined T/O and landing distance is 335'

    Y'all should post up some vids so I can compare;)

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  10. Posted · Edited by FireFoxIV

    When I bought my kitfox, the previous owner had the mechanic, that did the annual, rebuild the carbs, and on my flight home I stopped for the night and the engine quit on landing roll out and when I popped the cowl this is what I found:blink: The bolts in the carb boot where only hand tight and had back out after 2.5hrs of flying. 

     

    50hrs after the carb rebuild it started to run rough at idle a few weeks ago, and when I took the carbs apart to see what was up, 75% of the o-rings where cracked. 

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    Larry, how do you liking the N/R prop so far? I'm thinking about getting one from Hal for my Fox and I would like some feedback. 

    So far, so good.  Performance is good.  The Prince pulled harder out of the hole, but the Luga/NR is faster on the top end.  I went from 200' takeoff to 250'.  I can live with that.

    After the world of bullcrap is over, I'd like to try a pair of 79" blades in it to see how they perform.

    thanks 

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    Might not be a bad idea to have a filter right after the fuel pump, at least for a while till you get the junk out.  I always run my fuel through a Mr Funnel, but I'm always filling up at home from cans.  JImChuk

    Im geting a inline fuel filter to put in downstream of the fuel pump, and I'll probably flush all the fuel lines to make sure I get all the crud out

    I had a ACS 'Homebuilders' gascolator on both my Kitfoxes and how that crud could get thru the gascolator is a big question to me. Is the gascolator filter screen in place?

    Just a FYI, ACS has both high and low pressure versions with SS screen filter mesh sizes 74 or 122 microns respectively and a gasket that in not ethanol proof. I replaced the gasket with the E-proof gasket and finer SS 74 micron screen on both. 74 micron is about the dia. of a human hair, definitely should catch the crud you found. Another FYI, the low pressure gascolator is rated to max continuous fuel pressure of 3lbs. but seems to work fine with slightly higher psi elec boost pumps.

    there is a really fine screen in the gasgolator, the pieces of FOD are quite abit bigger than that screen. It almost looks like the fertilizer that i put on my runway, at least for color anyways:blink:

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    Yuck! Curious when the last time the carbs were cleaned or rebuilt? Fuel filter replaced? Do you have finger strainers at the tank outlets? Do you use a Mr. Funnel or other fine filter when handing fuel? Did you ever determine the source of this contamination, or exactly what it was?

    The carbs where rebuilt February 2019 with 50hrs on them. I think there's finger screens in the tanks but it's hard to see since I cant get the fitting out because one of them is bonded to the the female fitting thats glued to the fiberglass tank. And the other one is a nylon fitting that's stuck. The only other fuel filter in the whole fuel system is the screen in the gasgolator. I don't use a filter when I'm filling, I know I should, but the jugs I use are for filling my airplane only and there clean, know tellin about the fuel though. I have know idea what it is or where it came from

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    My 912 has always idled I little rough and I kinda pawned it on the carbs being out of sync. But last time I ran it, it idled so rough there was no way I was goin flyin. I tweaked the throttle arms to see if I could get it to run smoother, but no matter what I did it just got worse. So I dropped the float bowls and took out the idle jets, and what I found sure made sense why it ran roughly at idle and smooth at 2500rpms and up. 

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  21. Posted

    Thats not fair! Everyone else gets to start out with something already flat:BC:

    Its looks good though. 

  24. Posted · Edited by FireFoxIV

    The N number is 121DC. I looked at that airplane back in May 2019 when it was in OK. It has a different prop on it now, but I'm pretty sure it's the same airplane. The guy that had it, when I looked at it, said it was de-registered 2 owners before him for "liability" reasons.  It's a nice airplane, engine sure ran nice, I hope you got it for a good price, he wanted 13k when I was looking at it.