Mike Wills came up with this cute place to mount a
     fuel pressure gage. Helps when setting the fuel pressure
     or trouble shooting things when it won't start.
     These small gages are available from McMaster Carr.

     Dave, can you send me all correspondence with Mike
     as he was installing the engine. It will help
     me understand why he did certain things in a particular
     way.

    Paul Lamar


   No Bourdon tube gages for fuel. Put an electric sender in that position
   and a switch beside it to switch between the inside electric gage and
   one under the cowl. If you just have to use a Bourdon gage you can put
   an isolator in front of it and run it on antifreeze.
   Bourdon tubes eventually split open and spray fuel all over hell.
   Lynn E. Hanover

   What is it about fuel pressure that causes them to split?
   Say.... as opposed to steam?


   Paul Lamar
     --


   HI Paul,

   I never got any info on why he installed those in addition to his engine
   monitor. The only stuff I have of any significance is his
   general correspondence trying to fix the issue of his EC2 dumping its
   memory.  I'll forward all that one of these days.

   --
   David Leonard

   Turbo Rotary RV-6 N4VY
   http://N4VY.RotaryRoster.net
   http://RotaryRoster.net

   Thanks Dave.
   I have not started it up yet so I don't know how it is running and
   tuned.
   Still trying to make room in the hangar. It seemed OK at Borrego
   Springs.

   Paul Lamar



Yes, but you may remember that he was late the day....

His problem was an intermittent memory dump of the computer B memory.
Totally erased out of the blue for no good reason.  Computer A always
remained intact and he was always able to copy A=>B and replace the
memory, but it was disconcerting to him.  It happened several times and
he was growing quite frustrated trying to find the cause.  He
eventually,  found a loose IC chip in the EC2 and re-seated it, and that
seemed to fix the problem as he went another 10 hours of so without a
recurrence.

Then, it happened again when he was coming up to come see us at
Borrego.  He was late because he was debating weather or not to take
off.  He reset the memory and did some run up and it seemed to hold so
he finally decided to come meet us.

I think he flew the plane very little after that day at Borrego because
he was at his wit's end trying to figure out what was causing computer B
to dump its memory.  He had sent the unit back
to Tracy and everything checked out OK.

The things I can think of to check would be vibration isolation and
solenoid/coil decay fields. (make sure the diodes are installed)  I had
a terrible problem with my ELT being triggered.  On 2 different
occasions I had to make trips to my plane late at night to answer to the
CAP who had tracked down my ELT signal.  I finally tracked my problem
down to my master contactor.  When I would turn off the master the decay
spike would occasionally trigger the ELT even though the ELT was not
even connected to the electrical system and located well away from the
contactor!!!   Sounds like the kind of thing that might be able to cause
the EC2 to dump some of its non-volatile memory.  Installing a diode
(per Aeroelectric Connection) solved my problem.

I figure I owe you at least a couple of days of hard labor.  I can help
re-install wings, engine, EC2, test flying, transition training for you
in my airplane, whatever you want.  Let me know when you need help and I
will find time in my schedule.  But it might always take me a couple of
weeks to schedule a day off.