Gees!!! When will this nitemare end! That royally SUCKS! Let us know where
exactly it is leaking from... truly weird.

We've been having ongoing problems with our autopilot, an S-Tec 60-2. First
a runaway trim so they pulled the pitch computer, sent it to S-Tec and for
$150 the told us it was A-OK. Now we pulled the pitch servo and sent it in
for diagnostics and possible new switches. We've been flying in without
pitch or altitude hold and it seems to work fine until last night when one
of the other partners said that in HDG mode it oscillates about 10 degrees
one way and then corrects back 10 degrees the other way. NAV mode works
perfect other than it tracks with the cdi needle 2 1/2 degrees left.

Good luck with the carb, I feel for you.

Jim

"Denny" wrote in message
ups.com...
Just got off the phone with Steve... The replacement carburetor from
Kelly Aerospace came late Friday, so being Christmas Eve he hung it on
the plane and went home without calling me.. Today he finished the hook
up and pushed the plane out to start it.. The bottom line is the
replacement, zero timed, CERTIFIED, carburetor leaks even worse than
the one we sent back as defective - dumped fuel all over the ground the
instant he hit the boost pump, and he aborted the start... He called
Kelly Aerospace and they told him to open the carburetor and see what
the problem is... Jeez, the original, worn out carb didn't dump fuel
on the ground and was flyable as long as you paid attention to the
EGT... The only thing I can do is laugh as the labor bill keeps going
up...

I asked Steve how long he has been wrenching on airplanes... He said
more than 40 years... I asked him if he had ever had two zero timed,
carburetors in a row be defective... He said no... I'm waiting for a
call back on what he found but it's after 6PM and I'm going home, so
thought I would post this update...
Denny