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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Bob, I was very careful running
this motor in, ran several tanks through engine before flying and monitored the
cylinder head temp the whole time. Motor ran great the first weekend out with
the plane but the next weekend motor was having trouble from the first start of
the day and I was unable to fly due to troubles, sagging mainly. I sent
motor to piedmont for check out and they said it ran fine and had no problems. I
can hold engine against compression with no leak down felt but the discoloration
of the ring and top of piston does add credence to your theory, plus it does
seem like there is less compression once engine has been ran to operating
temperature. I would put a piston, ring and liner in it if I new my problems
would go away but I am afraid that it is not the root of my problem but a
outcome of the sagging in flight. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Hi<BR><BR>I'm sticking my nose in here,
but I've been running the Greve (Piedmont) set up for some time now and at their
setting it WORKS, very well. I agree with Jerry, by the way, the numbers
are wrong, based on my theory, but it works so I have not messed with it.
Reading your symptoms, I suspect you have a bad ring, allowing blow by into the
crank case, which changes with temp, which changes the crank case pressure,
which changes the "pump performance", which changes the temp, which
changes........ I have found that long before the ring is worn enough to
cause loss of compression/power it will upset the pump/regulator (speaking of
the OS here) because of combustion blow by into the crankcase. Not enough
leakage to effect peak performance, but with crankcase pressure at 8-12 lbs (I
think those are the numbers) and combustion pressure at probably thousands
of lbs a little leakage could double the case pressure and screw things
up. I have found replacing the ring sometimes ring and cylinder to solve
this, anyway, the theory as to way is just that, theory/speculation.<BR><BR>Hope
this helps<BR><BR>Bob</FONT> </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>