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Old 24th Aug 2015, 08:15
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yr right
 
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well at the point of making a point and I don't care what you all think this is how I do it for both lyc and tcm with injection


extreme cold
prime
get out of the cockpit
pull through the eng half a dozen times
crack throttle (small crack just over idle)
mixture ico
crank and on start slowly increase mixture to approx. half way.
as it clears increase to full mixture.
increase throttle as require to 1000


normal cold start
as above with out the pull threw
however you should always pull threw before any start.


if you have started and oil temp and engine is warm as above but just with a smaller prime. hand on boost pump if it requires more


most times my starts don't go over 800rpm and start 1st time every time unless there is a proplem


I never have to touch the throttle on start up


now I only start and run engines all but every day and more than once. so that's how I do I really don't care if you don't and ill guess ill get heaps of flack saying I don't know what im doing blah blah but when you start as many engines as is do well then tell me what to do.
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