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Re: Re: Fuel leak/smel

Subject: Re: Re: Fuel leak/smel
From: Miles McCallum <milesm@avnet.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 07:59:20
The UK equivalent (redex) was reformulated to make it environmentally
safe (and useless) - I check and see if tcp is effacacious as it was -
if so, it should help.

M

Fred Fillinger wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know if Alcor's TCP lead-scavenging additive minimizes
> this problem?  It works well on 80-octane Lycomings and Continentals
> running on the blue stuff.
> 
> Regards,
> Fred F., A063
> 
> > Martin,
> >
> > Nigel Beale, who sells the Rotax engines here in th UK, has shown me a head
> > and valves from a 912 which used 100LL.  Both were heavily contaminated with
> > yellow lead deposites to the extent that the valves could not operate
> > properly.  I forget how many hours the engine had done but it is something
> > you should be aware of.  The engine was designed to operated on unleaded
> > Mogas.
> >
> > If you e mail him at skydrive@avnet.co.uk he could probably enlarge upon
> > this.
> >
> > Dave



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