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 The Rotax 912iS has been patiently sitting for a few years while I've been building the RV-12iS. Tried to start it a month or so ago and it didn't develop any power and then I found a pretty good sized fuel leak in the cabin. Took weeks to fix and I didn't expect that was the cause of the power problem but once fixed, decided to try once again.

Still a problem. Couldn't develop more than 900 RPM but then at one point things kicked in to about 2700 for a few seconds before dying.

A look at the Garmin G3X data showed totally cold cylinders 2 & 4.

Does this seem like a clogged injector situation because of the length of time -5 years  the engine has sat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8y6nYQ7ZL4&ab_channel=BobCollins

There's the video, I'm attaching the data dump

11059_1_G3X data-matches video.csv (You do not have access to download this file.)
  • Re: Failed first engine start

    by » 2 hours ago


    Bob, 

    The injectors seem like the most probable cause.  The way the coils are arranged, you would need to loose all four ignition coils to fail both the top and bottom plugs of cylinders 2 and 4. While it’s true that you would need both injectors clogged to have a totally cold cylinder, I think that is more likely.  You may also have one of the injectors clogged on cylinders 1 and 3 and they are limping along on one injector.  There are injector cleaning services, but Rotax would say replace them all. Maybe you could have them cleaned as a test, and if that solves the problem you could then decide to replace them. At least it’s a lot cheaper test than replacing them and having that not be the problem.  


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