YS 140L not starting

[jivey61 at bellsouth.net]

 Phil
Go a little further and completly remove the Needle valve ,turn the engine over with your starter until the fuel spirts out of the needle body.Then you know your regulater is cleared out of congealed oil.

Jim Ivey
> 
> From: Prmoore at aol.com
> Date: 2004/06/05 Sat AM 12:18:46 EDT
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: YS 140L not starting
> 
> Engine doesn't want to fire. Symptoms:  
> Fuel draw not the best, very little pressure in the tank, compression seems  
> OK.  When we first pulled the cowl the fuel was to the filter which was the  
> high spot in the line, after some fidgeting (not sure why) the fuel line had  
> visible fuel to the engine.  
> Removed the glow plug, put a few drops of fuel in the cylinder still  
> basically wouldn't fire.  There we a couple of very minor puts while  turning with 
> the starter after putting the fuel drops in the  cylinder.  Pulled valve cover, 
> valve gap not the problem.  Glow plug  glows, check valve is in the correct 
> direction.  If you put your  finger over the pipe exhaust can't feel any 
> pressure pulses as we turned  the engine over.  This engine hasn't been run since 
> comming back from YS  (supposedly rebuilt).
>  
> Phil
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