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Re: [TR] TR6 Problems

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Subject: Re: [TR] TR6 Problems
From: Dave1massey@cs.com
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 21:37:40 EDT
In a message dated 9/2/2007 7:24:15 PM Central Daylight Time, 
TR250Driver@aol.com writes: 
> High Maintenance Type Guy Here, Huh?  OK, I admit that the Six has not  
> been 
> out much this year.  Tonight, she darn near left me on the side on the  
> road.  
> Running poorly, she quit.  No fire!  Gas seemed to be  present.  Called Bev, 
> 
> and she coped a rotor out of the 250 and came to the  rescue, grand kids in 
> tow in the Audi. With the 250 rotor the Six fired  enough to get her home, 
> but 
> just barely as she ran like crap the few miles  needed.  Got to be 
> electrical 
> from sitting!  What to look at first?  Funny that the rotor from the 250 
> made 
> her fire?  I was on my way to  get some fresh gas added to the half tank in 
> her 
> now of old stuff. 
> AT LEAST I DID NOT NOT REQIURE A HOOK!
> 
Then the drive was successfull!  (That's what they way about landings: any 
landing you can walk away from is a successfull landing.  A really great 
landing 
is when you can reuse the plane)

That happened to me and it turned out to be the condensor.  Those can fail 
without warning with just those symptoms.

And they are easy to swap.

Dave   
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