{"id":388,"date":"2014-01-02T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-13T08:13:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T08:13:22","slug":"first-engine-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2014\/01\/02\/first-engine-start\/","title":{"rendered":"First Engine Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

My brother and I came out to the airport early and got final assembly taken care of. \u00a0We bolted on the elevators and rudder, torqued and adjusted the ailerons and hooked up the flaps. \u00a0My buddy Greg came down and we got most of the safety wire on the propeller done. \u00a0We did a very thorough pre-flight and then pulled the plane out for first engine start.<\/p>\n

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We tied the plane off to my car and chocked the wheels. \u00a0Greg and his son Nicholas were on handheld radios so I could be in contact with them.<\/p>\n

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We spent a little time trying to diagnose a problem with the Andair fuel pump, but it looks like it’s not working correctly. \u00a0I’ll have to call Andair tonight to see what they want to do about this.<\/p>\n

We decided to go ahead and try the first engine start with just the engine-driven fuel pump. \u00a0We pre-oiled the engine by pulling the plugs and spinning the starter until we got oil pressure and fuel pressure. \u00a0Unfortunately, that killed the battery, so we had to hook it up to jumper cables for the final start. \u00a0After reinstalling the lower plugs, it fired up pretty quickly. \u00a0Here’s a video of the first engine run.<\/p>\n

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Everything about the start went beautifully. \u00a0The engine ran perfectly and we were able to verify all engine controls are working correctly, both ignitions are working correctly, all pressure and temperature senders are working correctly. \u00a0There is one small oil drip from the cap on the oil cooler, but other than that, everything is tight and there were no problems.<\/p>\n

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My brother and I came out to the airport early and got final assembly taken care of. \u00a0We bolted on the elevators and rudder, torqued and adjusted the ailerons and hooked up the flaps. \u00a0My buddy Greg came down and we got most of the safety wire on the propeller done. \u00a0We did a very … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}