Hello Steve,
I apologize for the late reply, I had to go on military duty for a bit. I am a medic. Thank you for your questions. I have answered the best I could below. Currently I have taken off the cylinders in order to inspect the lower half. The crank looks good. I was going to have the cylinders looked at with a place called “One Stop” in Oceanside.
When you say the cylinder is flat, what does that mean?
My mechanic said he hasn’t seen a “flat” cylinder in over 30 years. Meaning it wasn’t working at all. During a compression test is didn’t even hold and showed zero.
I am not familiar with the term Cam test. Can you explain further?
I apologize it was a compression test.
What do you think? Does anything about the engine cause you worry?
It would fly with a nose high attitude and I had to fly at night with colder air to get over some mountains in NM. I thought with 300 hp it should be no problem getting over the mountains even during the day with 90 degrees out.
Is it using a lot of oil?
I haven’t had it long enough to really know. Only had it for 10 hours now.
Is it hard to start?
Starts up fantastic!
Do you have an oil filter? If so, has the shop removed it and cut it open? If they did, was there metal in the filter media?
Only black specks which the mechanic said was burnt fuel / carbon.
Is it using more fuel than the book says it should at each power setting?
Flying it back from Oklahoma the fuel burn was good.
