Ok, so how *do* you hotstart your IO-540?

On Jul 24, 3:42 am, wrote:
Paul Tomblin wrote:
But yesterday, after flying for an hour and then sitting in the hot
sun for half an hour waiting for customs, I couldn't restart the
Lance and had to have it towed back to the tie down area.

For any fuel injection system that has been competently designed in the
last 40 years, the proper hot starting procedure is:

1) Leave throttle at idle
2) Crank until it catches
3) Advance throttle to desired setting

The proper cold starting procedure is:

1) Leave throttle at idle
2) Crank until it catches
3) Advance throttle to desired setting

The proper warm starting procedure is:

1) Leave throttle at idle
2) Crank until it catches
3) Advance throttle to desired setting

(There is no manual mixture control nor manual control of the fuel
pump.)

Of course, we're talking about airplanes, so none of the above applies.

Matt Roberds

Hi,

I appreciate your input but your method seems to be totally lacking in
the essential elements of starting a fuel-injected engine when hot.
Did you read any of the other posts or are you just trying to say that
if a fuel injected engine won't start when hot then it wasn't
"competentely designed" in your opinion?

Ricky

On Jul 24, 3:42 am, wrote:
Paul Tomblin wrote:
But yesterday, after flying for an hour and then sitting in the hot
sun for half an hour waiting for customs, I couldn't restart the
Lance and had to have it towed back to the tie down area.

For any fuel injection system that has been competently designed in the
last 40 years, the proper hot starting procedure is:

1) Leave throttle at idle
2) Crank until it catches
3) Advance throttle to desired setting

The proper cold starting procedure is:

1) Leave throttle at idle
2) Crank until it catches
3) Advance throttle to desired setting

The proper warm starting procedure is:

1) Leave throttle at idle
2) Crank until it catches
3) Advance throttle to desired setting

(There is no manual mixture control nor manual control of the fuel
pump.)

Of course, we're talking about airplanes, so none of the above applies.

Matt Roberds

Hi,

I appreciate your input but your method seems to be totally lacking in
the essential elements of starting a fuel-injected engine when hot.
Did you read any of the other posts or are you just trying to say that
if a fuel injected engine won't start when hot then it wasn't
"competentely designed" in your opinion?

Ricky

Ricky wrote in news:1185317834.174027.117390@
22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com:

On Jul 24, 3:42 am, wrote:
Of course, we're talking about airplanes, so none of the above applies.

I appreciate your input but your method seems to be totally lacking in
the essential elements of starting a fuel-injected engine when hot.
Did you read any of the other posts or are you just trying to say that
if a fuel injected engine won't start when hot then it wasn't
"competentely designed" in your opinion?

Read his last sentence (requoted above) and I think you will get his joke...