Quote Originally Posted by tbrum View Post
Sounds like a fuel issue to me!

Rick.. If you were to shut it down for 5min and restart it, would it behave the same where it runs great and then goes rich or would it go right to a feeling of being rich? Also, have you taken the carb apart at all? I've seen dirt in the screen inside the carb make a motor behave very weird and have seen the tuning appear to change inflight or between runs.

Where are your needles set? You don't by chance have them adjusted where the high speed is screwed right in (lean) and the low screwed way out (rich)?

Just throwing out ideas.
I'll try to shut it down and start it again in the first 5 minutes on Tuesday. Needles set at 1 1/4 low and 1 1/2 high when it runs right. I have taken the carb apart twice, it seems to be clean, nothing on the screen. Diaphragm seems fine as well. Part I don't get is why it gets so much gas when it shuts down, why is it flooded when I try to start it again? And I do mean flooded, fuel dripping from the carb! Could it be the metering value screwed up? And I wouldn't have a clue on how to adjust that. Like I said earlier this motor has always been a PITA! Cost me a plane when I was trying to hover by stalling when I went to bale out.

Maybe I should just try to get a new carb for it...