Winter (pre) starting

Another classic Autumnal weekend with cold and damp mornings.

Saturday was blowing a fair bit across so decided to wait until Sunday.

I had a small maintenance job to do first, so put the heat gun inside the cowl and put the top cowl loosely in position.

This would capture all the warm air inside the cowls and warm the sump, oil and carb as well as heads.

The small repair job took about 5 minutes, I have 2 RPM guages.. one is the original multi MFA unit (green and black display), then other is a newer version but dedicated to JUST RPM. The 2nd (newer) one had been in about 4 years or so, had started to go on and off intermittently.

I had traced it to a bad crimp on a ring connector that was one side of the 1 amp fuse. Undoing the fuse to save pulling the panel forward, gave easy access to allow a new ring connector to be cramped on.

5 minutes had clasped so quickly screwing the top cowl on, pull out (with Bob’s assistabce) and she started on first turn of the blade !