aebagwell

Yesterday finally rained enough to stay in the garage and find out what the problem was with the compression. It turns out that it is absolutely critical to have the prop timed with the compression stroke to help it continue to cycle. Worked like a charm. What I can't believe is that of all the times taking the prop off and on again is that I have only got it wrong this one time. The odds of that are somewhat amazing. The good news is that I basically have a brand new engine now and could rebuild it in my sleep. Not proud to say that I started this may 1st. What I will never divulge is how many guys looked at it, worked on it, and helped out with it. Gotta love paramotors.

OK, is there supposed to be a hole in the cylinder? ( dead center factory drilled...) my cylinder does not have one. Other posts mention having one.

Sorry, a solo 210.

OK, we are all stumped. I has a perfect running motor until I started the preventative maintenance program. Popped off the head, cleaned out the carbon, cleared the decompression port, replaced the head gasket, and now have TOO much compression. Cannot pull start, certainly cannot electric start. Took the pulleys off, the belts off, the carb off, isolated it to the actual compression. What else can I do? Double the gaskets? I have two brand new gaskets. Anybody else have this problem?

There are a couple models listed on the adventure web site, I guess I'll pick the one that best matches what was on there. Preflight was good. I knew that the back bracket was broken when I bought it. but I figured that the front bracket would break only during the start torque. I figured wrong. 30 minutes into the flight it went through the prop and I learned to treat the paramotor as serious as my airplane. The concept works though. Motor conks out and you glide back to the drawing board. It an expensive drawing board though.

Does anybody know what model starter goes on a solo 210? The unit is an Adventure F3. The one that it came with came off during flight. I wonder if that is why they call them "adventure" paramotors.