What was found
ON START UP, IDLE JUMPED TO 900 RPM FROM STANDARD 625 RPM FOR NO REASON, TURNED IDLE DOWN TO 700 RPM ENGINE RAN ROUGH. REPEATED CARBURETOR WITH O/H UNIT, PROBLEM WENT AWAY.
- Difficulty date
- June 16, 2010
- Submitted
- January 4, 2011
- Operation
- General aviation
- Make and model
- Cessna 172M
- Aircraft time
- 7,865 hours
- Engine
- Lyc O320E2D
- System (JASC)
- 7322 · Fuel Control/Reciprocating Engines
- Part
- Carburetor
- Part number
- 105217
- Condition
- Malfunctioned
- Location
- Engine
- Part time
- 125 hours
- Stage of operation
- TX
- How discovered
- O
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- E
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.