Ed Anderson wrote:

 Yes, Paul.
    I mix oil with the gasoline.  However, the fuel in my tank has been
sitting there since I last flew in April.  I wouldn't think that the oil
would settle out of suspension over time and you would have thought that
flooding the chambers with gasoline would have left its own oil deposite on
the metal.    Since the engine has sat for months before without being run
without any problem and the only thing different this time was the severe
flooding I am inclined to think there is a connection.

  If only one or two apex seals had stuck I might have looked for another
cause.  But, in this case all the apex seals are failing to provide
compression.  There is not a single rotor face that gives that "PoP" of air
as it rotates past the exhaust.

  I plan on tearing the engine down and will report on what I find.

Ed

"Alfonso J. Lebrón-Bergés" wrote:

Ed, it seems to me that you have portrayed the culprit very clear.

If that gas has been sitting there that long it would be of no surprise that the
whole bottom of your tanks is having water instead of gasoline.

I will never forget what happened to me with a similar situation but involving the
twin gas tanks of my boat (containing pre-mixed gas+oil). After a few months of no
use, I wanted to start the engine. No way. Then I noticed through the glass gas
filter container that what I was sucking out of the tanks was water. Each tank held
about 18 gals. of gas and I extracted one gal of water from one tank and one and a
half from the other. That much for condensation and its results.

Did you check the gas before trying to start the engine after that many months of
sitting idle?

Alfonso Lebron-Berges

Good point Al.

Paul Lamar
 
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