REFLECTOR: Severely rough-running Franklin

mike deeter iguanamagic at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 30 01:33:17 CST 2006


Sorry to state the obvious, but....

If you messed with the plugs or plug wires, check that
the spark plug wires are on their correct plugs.

As incredible as it may seem a buddy of mine, who
shall remain unnamed (but his initials are 'Brian
Michalk' :-)), had his on wrong and the engine, of
course, ran very rough.

By the way, also incredibly, my Franklin manual had an
incorrect diagram showing the numbering of the plug
wires so it's not that incredible that you could have
them on wrong.

Mike Deeter


--- Hiroo Umeno <humeno at microsoft.com> wrote:

> So...
> 
> I gave my plane its first oil change.  It has about
> 10 hours now.  As expected with a newly overhauled
> engine, there are some very fine dark powder mixed
> in the oil.  No big chunks or shavings.  So far, so
> good.
> 
> After the oil change, I tried starting the engine. 
> Using the primer, I tried a few times and just could
> not get it to run consistently.  It will fire and do
> an uneven "shakes and rattles" and after a few
> seconds, it will die back down.  One time, I got it
> to run for about one minute but the running was
> rough and really uneven and would not idle as it
> used to.
> 
> Subsequently, it just will not go beyond a few
> rattles and shakes.  My wife observed a faint white
> smoke blow out of the exhaust stack when it
> "rattles" and a few times a darker smoke
> subsequently.
> 
> What should I look into?
> 
> Hiroo
> 
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