Float Flyr
Joined: 19 Jul 2006
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Location: Campbellton, Newfoundland
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 Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:33 am Post subject: Cold weather starting OT |
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Guy:
Anyone who lives in sno-mo country will tell you the same thing... Starting a two stroke is the easy part... Keeping them going is the hard part. They say that because some of the older machines really need the crank seals replaced.
With the maintenance generally done on the aircraft 582 that should not be a problem. So we end up with an engine that is easy to start and run.
Anyone who owns a Chevy in the far north will tell you it’s best to plug it in. I’ve lived in areas where even the shopping centres have plugins for shoppers. I’ve also driven cars in temps so low the brakes literally froze to the extent that I had to use both feet on the brake pedal and then wait five minutes for the brakes to release again (an old Mustang). Automatic transmissions used to have the bands stretch and manual shift was great as long as you didn’t have to change gears in the first half hour. Gear oiil in the differentials also changed to the consistency of toothpaste so four wheel drive was really draggy for the first hour or so of operation. The surprising part is the amount of traction you have is snow at those temperatures. We used to get warnings when the temperature climbed to within ten degrees F of freezing. I’m sure a lot of those things have been fixed since I lived in the north.
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Noel Loveys
Campbellton, NL, Canada
CDN AME intern, PP-Rec
C-FINB, Kitfox III-A
912 almost installed
Aerocet 1100 floats
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From: owner-kitfox-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-kitfox-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Guy Buchanan
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 3:37 PM
To: kitfox-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: Re: Cold weather starting
At 08:11 AM 12/10/2008, you wrote:
He singled out the Rotax 900 series engines because of their very tight fit compared to Continentals or Lycomings. He said that even if you turn the engine over by hand at 10 F or lower temps, you will be scraping some metal off and starting the end of the engine.
YES! Yet another reason to run the mighty 582: It's a snowmobile engine! It doesn't care HOW cold it is. (Well, up to a point, I'm sure.)
Sorry, I always get a little delirious around the Holidays. 
Happy Holidays,
Guy Buchanan
San Diego, CA
K-IV 1200 / 582-C / Warp / 100% done, thanks mostly to Bob Ducar. | Quote: | | http://www.matronics.com/contribution |
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