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Old 03-22-2021, 05:10 PM   #1
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First trip of the season to grab fresh gas in my39 Peekup I did a flameout pattern into a driveway. No spark.
Neighbor towed me home. Very nice! Turns out he has a 48 Studebaker pickup. Another neighbor has a Stude pickup

I get a spark if I put power from the negative terminal to the dissy top.

I'm guessing coil condenser is shot??

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Old 03-22-2021, 05:23 PM   #2
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Resistor? Ignition switch? Bad connection? No power at the coil through the normal route?
Turn the ignition on, start at the coil and work back to the power source until you find voltage.
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Old 03-23-2021, 11:11 AM   #3
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Switch I rebuilt several years ago. IWill start with a switch test. thencapacitor. Coil is one of Skip's.

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Old 03-23-2021, 11:39 AM   #4
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Flameout pattern = fighter pilot?

Even if the condenser is a dead short if will not zero the voltage at the ignition switch source side of the distributor. Condenser is not your problem.
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Old 03-24-2021, 04:51 PM   #5
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Fixed. Wire fell off the ammeter. Thanks

Just talk. I flew many motors
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Old 03-24-2021, 05:49 PM   #6
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Loose wire = not a big problem.
One flameout in many-motor, also not a problem.

Check six.
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Old 04-01-2021, 01:08 PM   #7
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In the old KB-50, I have lost one round motor and one stove pipe. Kept on going. Another flight they lost a jet engine (over water). The pilot did not notice until the fighter he was refueling remarked "hey, you lost an engine"
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In the old KB-50, I have lost one round motor and one stove pipe. Kept on going. Another flight they lost a jet engine (over water). The pilot did not notice until the fighter he was refueling remarked "hey, you lost an engine"
Never hooked up to a KB-50, but here is me in and F-4 refueling from a KC-97 that had one engine feathered and one main gear stuck down (fortunately, on opposite sides). Air National Guard tanker pilot was not going to let that stop him from logging a successful mission. Dropped down to 15,000' and F-4's put their flaps down to fly slow enough to hook up.

Only a little off topic. We are still sort of on the subject of engine failure.
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Old 04-02-2021, 11:43 PM   #9
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Great photo. The KC-97 had the 2 jets added, correct? We could refuel the F-4 if we tobogganed down some.
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Never hooked up to a KB-50, but here is me in and F-4 refueling from a KC-97 that had one engine feathered and one main gear stuck down (fortunately, on opposite sides). Air National Guard tanker pilot was not going to let that stop him from logging a successful mission. Dropped down to 15,000' and F-4's put their flaps down to fly slow enough to hook up. Only a little off topic. We are still sort of on the subject of engine failure.
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Old 04-03-2021, 06:39 AM   #11
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Drolston, Clem Clemmet, THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE !!! One of you mentioned "round motor; when i was a kid, i was allowed to "take the yoke" in a Ford Tri-motor over Lake Erie. Love radial engines, never got a pilots licence. I admire any pilot.
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Old 04-03-2021, 07:11 AM   #12
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My dad flew the civilian(Stratocruiser) version of the KC-97 for Northwest. Fortunately, he never had any gear problems or lost an engine. As he said, he made it a point never to take those trips. I do recall him saying that you had to watch the temperature on those big R-3350 engines.
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