Fairchild Club Forum

'Our Ranger c-5 Fairchild had the following problem:

Installed overhauled magneto's. Engine ran perfect. After 40 minutes in the third flight of the day both started to misfire. Got worse by the minute.
Switching to one magneto did not help, even made things worse.

All temps were normal ...

'Have one installed with chip detector.very well made product!

Regards,

remco

--- In fairchildclub@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Link"
wrote:
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> Go to http://www.redtail.org/rebuild_gallery5.html and click on the
lower R/H pic of the oil screen for the P-51C. It seems to be based on
the ...

'--- In fairchildclub@yahoogroups.com, "whelan7412" wrote:
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> Does anyone have a 337 field approval for installing an Airqwolf oil
> filter on a F-24 165 Warner?
>
> Thanks!
> Steve Whelan
> NC8155
>
Steve,
Go the ADC disk type way!
Cools and cleans,with chip detector and bypass.Plus ...

'Sounds typical dutch..

Give me a call.my fairchild is based in Maastricht.
+31622785053

Groeten,

Remko
--- In fairchildclub@yahoogroups.com, Dan Casali wrote:
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> lusc1863
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> Comment from user:
> Member/pilot of Early Birds Fndn (see www.vroegevogels.org). Fairchild
> is a ...

'I am looking for a tire in the size 4.00x3.5 (rimsize is 3.5 inch)

Can't find one for my Fairchild..

Thanks,

Remko'

'I have a homemade can which I think doesn't do a good job.(Still a lot
of oildrops out of the vent tube)

so I want to replace it with a proven unit that will work.

What type should I buy?

Thanks,

Remko'

'After I got my new engine up and running,I installed the Aeromatic
prop which I had bought from Kent Tarver.

After 2 flights I had the prop adjusted.Obviously Kent knows how to
pre-adjust the Aeromatic in his shop for any given airplane.

Difference in performance is dramatic in my opinion ...

'What a wonderfull forum!

Thanks for the help in solving my problem with the power surge during
take-off.

After dismantling the carb,and checking the floatlevel,it proofed to
be 3/16 low.We brought it up juat a tad above the required 9/16
measured from the bowl down to the fuellevel and the ...

'Tom,I called with Dan at Aircraft systems.He told me that gravity
feed the fuel level should be adjusted to 9/16 inch bottom needle to
fuel level.

So you where absolutely right there are two adjustments!

I will let you all know if this cured the problem but I am pretty
shure it will ...

'Karl,it is a Stromberg.I can't find anything written on it-ie 3 lbs or
1 lbs for the flow.I will dismantle it again to compare the floatlevel
with another carb I have,which is gravity fed for sure.The bad
condition from the engine that carb came from withheld me from using it.

For me it is a ...