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I'm out of ideas on getting this 912 ul to run correctly. It starts fine and runs smooth for about a minute, then you feel a miss develop. It almost sounds and feels like a small Continental than a Rotax. It will continue to run rough until about 3300 rpm. It smooths out and make normal power but has an occasional miss in cruise. When you pull the power back for landing it runs rough again below about 4000 rpm.
The carbs have be rebuild by myself and a professional, the gearbox rebuilt, plugs changed and gapped filters changed, it been sync and sync (it runs rough with the vacuum gauges showing perfect sync on both carbs, I've richening and leaned the idle jet , raised and lowered the needle jet no change. Tracked and balanced the prop. Mag drop about 150 rpm same on both ignitions although it does seem to run slightly rougher on one. I've replaced all the plug wires and checked ing connections
Anyone have any ideas?
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  • Re: Rough 912 still!

    by » 9 years ago


    -Induction leak? have you ever had a cylinder off? if so, and you did not use the 877263 jig to align the cylinders you could have cracked the manifold.
    try the either test to see if you have and induction leak. Or propane works. Spray the whole induction including the rubber sockets to see if you get a rpm change.
    -Try to find a pair of loaner carbs, it is not uncommon for two people to miss the same assembly mistake.

    Thank you said by: E. Graves Pate

  • Re: Rough 912 still!

    by » 9 years ago


    Forgot to mention I've changed the rubber carb attach sockets and sprayed the area with starter fluids while idling ,no change.

  • Re: Rough 912 still!

    by » 9 years ago


    any chance of a loaner carb set? You may have something stuck in the idle port that just will not come out?

  • Re: Rough 912 still!

    by » 9 years ago


    I've seen similar symptoms which gradually got worse until it was rough at cruise power. It turned out to be a worn inlet valve. The part of the valve that contacts the seat was deformed as though the material had softened. It was hard to diagnose and was only found by stripping the engine.

    If you suspect it might be something similar then you could remove the rocker covers, get the piston to TDC so that both valves are closed and then measure the distance from the end of the valve stem to some fixed datum. Compare the measurements from all inlet and all exhaust valves, they should be virtually the same. On the problem engine there would have been in excess of 1mm difference on the faulty valve.

    It would be worth inspecting the valve springs whilst you have the rocker covers removed.

    I hate these problems, they can be very time consuming to track down.

    Kevin

  • Re: Rough 912 still!

    by » 9 years ago


    Thank you all for your replys
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