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I just put a post last week about a "Wandering EGT".

By cleaning the vacuum piston sliding surfaces and leaving a clean surface The pistons slide very easily and there is no sticking of either slide, the EGT's no longer wander.

Now the left EGT starts out even with the right and remains close till around 3800 rpm then the left begins reading higher up through 4600 rpm by about 80 degrees and over 4800 rpm it begins dropping and getting closer to the right. At full throttle the egt's are maybe 10-20 degrees apart.
Today I replaced the left EGT probe and it made little difference from the old one. The left egt gets just over 1400 degrees in this midrange rpm while the right is about 1320 degrees.
The carb bowls are clean and the floats not disintegrating. The carbs have never been messed with and I am assuming the needles are both the same as this large temperature difference didn't used to exist and has seemed to get worse over the last year or so. The rubber gaskets for the vacuum chamber are both pliable, look new and have no cracks or splits. The engine has 800 hours. The carbs are syncronized every year and hold their sync very well from year to year. Fuel pressure is 4 lbs,there are no leaks or seepages on the carbs.

Anyone got an idea what would cause this midrange lean condition/high EGT on the left side.
  • Re: Left bank high egt (80 degrees higher)

    by » 11 years ago


    Hi Dale,

    An 80F spread is not unheard of and can be caused by several things. A 115F spread would be considered max. A 10-20F spread is basically considered the same temp. The temps are too high to be dead on with our type of instrumentation. The things that can cause temp differences can be a fuel imbalance, different main jet needle or main jet, header wrap cloth touching the probes (I wouldn't have believed this, but I'm the one that found the problems years ago. neither Rotax or Dynon knows why), a difference in each probe, air filter difference if they are separate filters, air leaks, big plug gap difference from one side to the other. The list can go on, but these are the most common.

    Depending on what I'm doing and the throttle setting I can see 10F - 80F EGT spreads.

    Roger Lee
    LSRM-A & Rotax Instructor & Rotax IRC
    Tucson, AZ Ryan Airfield (KRYN)
    520-349-7056 Cell


  • Re: Left bank high egt (80 degrees higher)

    by » 5 years ago


    Please post what engine you have. It matters for people looking later in life. Thanks

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